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Software for printing in Word or Excel

rixan Posted messages 438 Status Member -  
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Hello,

There are many tools to have virtual printers to print in PDF and XPS (Microsoft's specific format): CutePDF, PDFCreator, etc.

But I am looking for an equivalent tool to generate Word or Excel documents. Does that exist?

If not, are there free tools to convert an XPS file to Word/Excel or a PDF to Word/Excel? Preferably virtual printers.

Thanks in advance

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    Bruce Willix Posted messages 12376 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 640
     
    Do you want to generate a Word document from a PDF that was generated from a Word document?

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  2. rixan Posted messages 438 Status Member 43
     
    No! I preferably want XPS to Excel or PDF to Excel, but To Word will do as well. So I have a PDF file and an XPS file to convert!
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  3. Bruce Willix Posted messages 12376 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 640
     
    Yes, but these files already come from Word and Excel themselves. The simplest is to copy/paste the content, but you lose all formatting.
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  4. rixan Posted messages 438 Status Member 43
     
    I’m trying Nitro PDF Professional, which is a PDF reader with converters to Word and Excel!

    The problem is that there’s always an error with the PDF files I test (which were generated from Excel and Word) saying: The file contains non-standard encoding and may not be processed correctly.
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  6. Bruce Willix Posted messages 12376 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 640
     
    And if you generate yourself a test file with the same program, what does it say?
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  7. rixan Posted messages 438 Status Member 43
     
    Honestly, aren’t there tools like PDFCreator that do “Print to Excel/Word”?
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  8. Bruce Willix Posted messages 12376 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 640
     
    Not to my knowledge. The idea of the PDF is not to be “reconverted” into its original format.

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  9. rixan Posted messages 438 Status Member 43
     
    Thank you Bruce, I have a serious problem so since the application I designed can only generate an XPS and the client wants Excel and also Word outputs. I was talking about PDF because of course I could print to PDF with PDFCreator!
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  10. Bruce Willix Posted messages 12376 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 640
     
    Your app would not be able to generate a CSV file that you can then import into Excel? How does the XPS generation work? Do you first go through a "classic" file that you submit to MS's XPS printer? If so, try to intercept that one and import it into Word/Excel?
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