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PdfWebControlLiteCreateDocument Method (String, Byte, PdfLiteSettings)

Create and load new document from binary data and document settings.

Namespace:  RadPdf.Web.UI
Assembly:  RadPdf (in RadPdf.dll) Version: 3.44.0.0 (3.44.0.0)
Syntax
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public PdfLiteSession CreateDocument(
	string documentFileName,
	byte[] documentBinary,
	PdfLiteSettings liteSettings
)

Parameters

documentFileName
Type: SystemString
File name of PDF to be used when PDF is downloaded
documentBinary
Type: SystemByte
Binary data representing a PDF document
liteSettings
Type: RadPdf.LitePdfLiteSettings
Settings for this document

Return Value

Type: PdfLiteSession
Lite Document session
Remarks

documentFileName does not need to be unique.

documentBinary should contain binary data representing a PDF file. If it instead contains a supported image type and ConvertImageToPdf is true, the image will automatically be converted to PDF and a new document created and loaded; otherwise if ConvertImageToPdf is false, an exception will be thrown if documentBinary does not contain a properly formatted PDF file.

Examples
The following aspx and code behind files use the CreateDocument method to open a new document from the local file system.
C#
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using System;

using RadPdf.Lite;

partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!IsPostBack)
        {
            //Get PDF as byte array from file (or database, browser upload, remote storage, etc)
            byte[] pdfData = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(@"C:\demo.pdf");

            PdfLiteSettings settings = new PdfLiteSettings();
            settings.DocumentSettings = PdfDocumentSettings.DisablePrint;

            //Load PDF byte array into RAD PDF
            this.PdfWebControlLite1.CreateDocument("Document Name", pdfData, settings);
        }
    }
}
XML
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<%@ Page Language="C#" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="RadPdf" Namespace="RadPdf.Web.UI" TagPrefix="radPdf" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>RAD PDF Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <radPdf:PdfWebControlLite id="PdfWebControlLite1" runat="server" height="600px" width="100%" />
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
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