PdfCreationOptions Class

Represents document creation options.

Namespace: DevExpress.Pdf

Assembly: DevExpress.Pdf.v23.2.Core.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Pdf.Core

Declaration

C#

public class PdfCreationOptions

VB.NET

Public Class PdfCreationOptions

Remarks

The PDFCreationOptions object is passed to the PdfDocumentProcessor.CreateEmptyDocument method as an argument. You can prohibit font embedding in the PDF document (the PdfCreationOptions.DisableEmbeddingAllFonts property), specify the document compatibility mode (the PdfCreationOptions.Compatibility property) and the collection of font families that are not embedded in a document (the PdfCreationOptions.NotEmbeddedFontFamilies property).

Example

This example shows how to use PDF Graphics API to create a document with graphics content.

View Example

Program.cs

using DevExpress.Pdf;
using System;
using System.Drawing;
//...

using (PdfDocumentProcessor processor = new PdfDocumentProcessor()) {

    // Create an empty document.
    processor.CreateEmptyDocument("..\\..\\Result.pdf");

    // Create and draw PDF graphics.
    using (PdfGraphics graph = processor.CreateGraphics())
    {
        DrawGraphics(graph);

        // Render a page with graphics.
        processor.RenderNewPage(PdfPaperSize.Letter, graph);
    }
}


static void DrawGraphics(PdfGraphics graph) {
    // Draw text lines on the page.
    SolidBrush black = (SolidBrush)Brushes.Black;

    DXFont font1 = new DXFont("Times New Roman", 32, DXFontStyle.Bold);
    graph.DrawString("PDF Document Processor", font1, black, 180, 150);

    DXFont font2 = new DXFont("Arial", 20);
    graph.DrawString("Display, Print and Export PDF Documents", font2, black, 168, 230);

    DXFont font3 = new DXFont("Arial", 10);
    graph.DrawString("The PDF Document Processor is a non-visual component " +
                        "that provides the application programming interface of the PDF Viewer.", font3, black, 16, 300);

}

Program.vb

Imports DevExpress.Pdf
Imports System
Imports System.Drawing
'...

Using processor As New PdfDocumentProcessor()

    ' Create an empty document.
    processor.CreateEmptyDocument("..\..\Result.pdf")

    ' Create and draw PDF graphics.
    Using graph As PdfGraphics = processor.CreateGraphics()
        DrawGraphics(graph)

        ' Render a page with graphics.
        processor.RenderNewPage(PdfPaperSize.Letter, graph)
    End Using
End Using

Shared Sub DrawGraphics(ByVal graph As PdfGraphics)
    ' Draw text lines on the page.
    Dim black As SolidBrush = CType(Brushes.Black, SolidBrush)

    Dim font1 As New DXFont("Times New Roman", 32, DXFontStyle.Bold)
    graph.DrawString("PDF Document Processor", font1, black, 180, 150)

    Dim font2 As New DXFont("Arial", 20)
    graph.DrawString("Display, Print and Export PDF Documents", font2, black, 168, 230)

    Dim font3 As New DXFont("Arial", 10)
    graph.DrawString("The PDF Document Processor is a non-visual component " & "that provides the application programming interface of the PDF Viewer.", font3, black, 16, 300)
End Sub

Inheritance

Object

PdfCreationOptions