Scaling PDF document

[Peter]

Hi

I'm trying to create report as a PDF file and the report might have several PDF documents as appendixes. 

01.
02.RadFixedDocument reportPdf = CreateReportPdf();
03.foreach(RadFixedDocument appendixPdf = appendixes)
04.{
05.  // here I would like to scale appendixPdf to 80% of reportPdf.
06.  // Then I would like to add some header/footer telling which appendix file that has been added
07.  reportPdf.merge(appendixPdf);
08.}
09.return reportPdf;

 

I hope the above example gives an idea on what I'm trying to do. Hope somebody can give some inspiration on how to accomplish it.

 

Yours
/peter

[Dimitar]

Hi Peter,

To achieve this you should add all page elements in a form and add the form to a new page. This will allow you to fit the form on a smaller page. Here is an example that shows this: 

PdfFormatProvider provider = new PdfFormatProvider();

var doc1 = provider.Import(File.ReadAllBytes(@"..\..\SampleDoc.pdf"));

RadFixedDocument modifiedDocument = new RadFixedDocument();

foreach (var page in doc1.Pages)
{
    RadFixedPage modifiedPage = modifiedDocument.Pages.AddPage();
    var newSize = new System.Windows.Size(page.Size.Width * 0.6, page.Size.Height * 0.6);
    modifiedPage.Size = newSize;

    List<ContentElementBase> contentElements = new List<ContentElementBase>();
    foreach (var contentElement in page.Content)
    {
        contentElements.Add(contentElement);
    }

     
    page.Content.Clear();

    FormSource formSource = new FormSource
    {
        Size = page.Size
    };

    foreach (var contentElement in contentElements)
    {
        formSource.Content.Add(contentElement);
    }

    Form form = modifiedPage.Content.AddForm(formSource);
    form.Width = newSize.Width;
    form.Height = newSize.Height;

    //form.Position.Translate(-25, -25);
    //form.Position.Scale(0.8, 0.8);
}

byte[] data = provider.Export(modifiedDocument);
File.WriteAllBytes(@"scaled.pdf", data);

Please note that you can scale the form as well (see the commented lines). 

I hope this helps. Should you have any other questions do not hesitate to ask.

Regards,
Dimitar
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[Peter]

Works perfectly! Thank you very much :-)

Yours
/peter