Page.ScaleContent(Double, Double) Method

Scales the content of a page by specified horizontal and vertical scaling factors.

Namespace: DevExpress.Docs.Pdf

Assembly: DevExpress.Docs.Pdf.v26.1.dll

Declaration

C#

public void ScaleContent(
    double scaleX,
    double scaleY
)

VB.NET

Public Sub ScaleContent(
    scaleX As Double,
    scaleY As Double
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
scaleX	Double	The horizontal scaling factor. A value greater than 1 enlarges the content, and a value from 0 to 1 reduces it.
scaleY	Double	The vertical scaling factor. A value greater than 1 enlarges the content, and a value from 0 to 1 reduces it.

Example

How to: Scale Page Content in a PDF Document

The following code snippet scales the content on the first page. The new content size is 50% of original both horizontally and vertically:

C#

using DevExpress.Docs.Pdf;
using System.IO;

using (PdfDocument pdfDocument = new PdfDocument(new FileStream(@"Document.pdf", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite)))
{
    // Scale page content along both axes.
    Page page = pdfDocument.Pages[0];
    page.ScaleContent(0.5, 0.5);
    pdfDocument.Save(new FileStream("Result.pdf", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write));
}

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.Docs.Pdf
Imports System.IO

Using pdfDocument As New PdfDocument(New FileStream("Document.pdf", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
    ' Scale page content along both axes.
    Dim page As Page = pdfDocument.Pages(0)
    page.ScaleContent(0.5, 0.5)
    pdfDocument.Save(New FileStream("Result.pdf", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
End Using