PdfWebControl.CreateDocument Method (String,Byte[], PdfDocumentSettings)

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

Namespace: RadPdf.Web.UI
Assembly: RadPdf (in RadPdf.dll) Version: 4.4.0.0 (4.4.0.0)

Syntax

public int CreateDocument(
	string documentFileName,
	byte[] documentBinary,
	PdfDocumentSettings documentSettings
)

Public Function CreateDocument ( 
	documentFileName As String,
	documentBinary As Byte(),
	documentSettings As PdfDocumentSettings
) As Integer

Parameters

documentFileName: Type: System.String
File name of PDF to be used when PDF is downloaded
documentBinary: Type:System.Byte[]
Binary data representing a PDF document
documentSettings: Type: RadPdf.Data.Document.PdfDocumentSettings
Flags for this document to obey

Return Value

Type: Int32
Document ID

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.

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using System;

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");

            //Load PDF byte array into RAD PDF
            this.PdfWebControl1.CreateDocument("Document Name", pdfData, PdfDocumentSettings.DisablePrint);
        }
    }
}

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:PdfWebControl id="PdfWebControl1" runat="server" height="600px" width="100%" />
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Reference

PdfWebControl Class

CreateDocument Overload

RadPdf.Web.UI Namespace

PdfWebControl.AddLanguageSpecificTextSet("LST7E78AFC7_0?cpp=::|nu=.");CreateDocument Method (String,AddLanguageSpecificTextSet("LST7E78AFC7_1?cpp=array&lt;");Byte[]AddLanguageSpecificTextSet("LST7E78AFC7_2?cpp=&gt;|vb=()|nu=[]");, PdfDocumentSettings)

Parameters

Return Value

Reference

PdfWebControl.CreateDocument Method (String,Byte[], PdfDocumentSettings)