Take the 2-minute tour ×  I've seen various methods for
generating thumbnails of PDF files in .NET, but unfortunately
all of them require full version of Acrobat installed. Is there
a way for getting them with free Adobe Reader or any other way?
share|improve this question add comment  3 Answers  up vote 2
down vote accepted  I find Ghostscript to be just great, and
it's free! For Windows, it comes as just a simple .dll and .exe,
which you can programmatically launch from C#.  share|improve
this answer add comment  You need a PDF to TIFF or JPEG or BMP
conversion. Using a commercial library allow you to many other
things with your PDF's.  You could try either of these
commercial approaches  http://www.informatik.com/tiff2pdf.html
or http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/ or http://www.expert-
tools.com/ENGLISH/index.html or
http://www.amyuni.com/en/developer/pdfcreator/features.html
share|improve this answer add comment  The only way I know is to
load .pdf into readers' hidden ActiveX and then make
screenshoots of