C# code to convert .docx to .pdf using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word

WordPDFConvert.cs

using System;
using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;

namespace WordToPDFConsoleApp
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            /*
             * Convert Input.docx into Output.pdf
             * Please note: You must have the Microsoft Office 2007 Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS installed
             * http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en
             * Solution source http://cathalscorner.blogspot.com/2009/10/converting-docx-into-doc-pdf-html.html
             */
            Convert(@"C:\Users\Arthur\WordToPDFFiles\TestMemoDoc - Copy - Copy - Copy.docx",
                @"C:\Users\Arthur\WordToPDFFiles\TestMemoDoc - Copy - Copy - Copy.pdf", WdSaveFormat.wdFormatPDF);

            Console.WriteLine("Document... Converted!");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }

        // Convert method
        public static void Convert(string input, string output, WdSaveFormat format)
        {
            // Create an instance of Word.exe
            _Application oWord = new Word.Application
            {

                // Make this instance of word invisible (Can still see it in the taskmgr).
                Visible = false
            };

            // Interop requires objects.
            object oMissing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;
            object isVisible = true;
            object readOnly = true;     // Does not cause any word dialog to show up
            //object readOnly = false;  // Causes a word object dialog to show at the end of the conversion
            object oInput = input;
            object oOutput = output;
            object oFormat = format;

            // Load a document into our instance of word.exe
            _Document oDoc = oWord.Documents.Open(
                ref oInput, ref oMissing, ref readOnly, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, 
                ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, 
                ref oMissing, ref isVisible, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
                );

            // Make this document the active document.
            oDoc.Activate();

            // Save this document using Word
            oDoc.SaveAs(ref oOutput, ref oFormat, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, 
                ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, 
                ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
                );

            // Always close Word.exe.
            oWord.Quit(ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
        }
    }
}

Thank you very much for the code it is working as expected. Can I use this one on production?

Hello. Cannot really answer that since I don't know the configuration of your production environment. However, my opinion is, yes you can use it if that prod env contains MS Office. Arthur A. Ezenwanne IT Personnel and Web Solutions Developer

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Thanks dear.

My production environment will be very simple just an API to convert word document to PDF. The code is working perfectly I can see no issues. But, Have you tried this on production?

thank you, it helped me a lot.

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: 'Could not load file or assembly 'office, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c'. The system cannot find the file specified.' getting this error...

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: 'Could not load file or assembly 'office, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c'. The system cannot find the file specified.' getting this error...

You need to make sure you have Microsoft Office installed on the pc the code is running on. Just using the Nuget package isn't enough.

Is there a reason why this type of conversion takes up to 5-8 minutes for single word document?