Appcrash KERNELBASE.dll error when I try to use Microsoft Office in Docker Container

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I have bad news. Get-WinEvent shows the following error when calling ExportAsFixedFormat inside the container:

TimeCreated                     Id LevelDisplayName Message
-----------                     -- ---------------- -------
6/27/2017 1:38:45 PM           300 Information      Microsoft Excel
                                                    No printers are installed. To install a printer click the File tab, and then click Print. Click No Printers
                                                    Installed, and then click Add Printer. Follow the instructions in the Add Printer dialog box.
                                                    P1: 100964
                                                    P2: 16.0.8201.2102
                                                    P3:
                                                    P4:

As I later confirmed using ProcMon in a windows Host, Excel’s ExportAsFixedFormat uses Window’s Microsoft Print to PDF printer. This printer (or any other printer for that matter) isn’t available in the container and I doubt it can be easily installed (for starters, Windows’ Spooler service is disabled and it fails to start after enabling it manually see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41565459/windows-2016-docker-container-error ).

So, I am giving up. Unless someone has a an alternative to ExportAsFixedFormat or a way to add a printer to the container (which feels wrong) I will move my code out of the containers.