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Scaling PDF document

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

PdfProcessing

answered on 12 Jun 2020

6 answers

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Export to pdf - font styles not exported?

Hi! I'm generating an Excel document containing various fonts of "HelveticaNeue". Please see attached images for samples.

When exporting to pdf using PdfFormatProvider, the font styles are changed, e.g. bold style disappears. However, when exporting using Excel interops it works.

Code using interops:

public static void ExcelToPdf( string xlFilePath, string pdfOutputPath )

{

try

{

Excel.Application app = new Excel.Application();

app.Visible = false;

app.DisplayAlerts = false;

Excel.Workbook wkb = app.Workbooks.Open( xlFilePath, ReadOnly: true );

wkb.ExportAsFixedFormat( Excel.XlFixedFormatType.xlTypePDF, pdfOutputPath );

wkb.Close();

app.Quit();

}

catch ( Exception ex )

{

Console.WriteLine( ex.StackTrace );

throw ex;

}

Code using Telerik PdfFormatProvider:

public override void Generate( DimensionTableInput input )

{

CreateWorkbook();

CreateWorkbookStyles();

CreateWorksheets( input );

XlsxFormatProvider xlsxFormatProvider = new XlsxFormatProvider();

PdfFormatProvider pdfFormatProvider = new PdfFormatProvider();

// this will result in 1 page per sheet

pdfFormatProvider.ExportSettings = new Telerik.Windows.Documents.Spreadsheet.FormatProviders.Pdf.Export.PdfExportSettings( ExportWhat.EntireWorkbook, true );

string xlsxFileName = $"{input.DocumentTitle}.xlsx";

string xlsxFullPath = $"{ Path.Combine( input.OutputPath, xlsxFileName )}";

ExportToFile( xlsxFormatProvider, xlsxFullPath );

string pdfFileName = $"{input.DocumentTitle}.pdf";

string pdfFullPath = $"{ Path.Combine( input.OutputPath, pdfFileName )}";

ExportToFile( pdfFormatProvider, pdfFullPath );

//Helpers.ExcelHelper.ExcelToPdf( xlsxFullPath, pdfFullPath );

}

private void ExportToFile( IWorkbookFormatProvider formatProvider, string fileName )

{

using ( Stream fs = File.OpenWrite( fileName ) )

{

formatProvider.Export( _workbook, fs );

}

I can share the original Excel and Pdf files if needed.

Thanks in advance,

John

SpreadProcessing

answered on 11 Jun 2020

3 answers

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Workbook Find fails with Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

I need to read the data from an excel file (not formatted) and in order to do this I need to find a cell that contains a specific text.

I am trying to do this

FindOptions options = new FindOptions()

{

FindWhat = "Record",

MatchEntireCellContents = true

};

but it fails with:

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Spreadsheet.Utilities.FindAndReplaceHelper.MoreThan(WorksheetCellIndex left, WorksheetCellIndex right, FindBy searchBy)
at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Spreadsheet.Utilities.FindAndReplaceHelper.<>c__DisplayClass3_0.<OrderResults>b__0(FindResult result)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.TakeWhileIterator[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source, Func`2 predicate)+MoveNext()
at System.Linq.Enumerable.Count[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Spreadsheet.Utilities.FindAndReplaceHelper.OrderResults(FindOptions findOptions, IEnumerable`1 findResults)
at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Spreadsheet.Model.Workbook.Find(FindOptions findOptions)

While looking in the code I have discovered that is because the StartCell is null. Where does it say that the StartCell is mandatory? Also why is the StartCell mandatory?

SpreadStreamProcessing

answered on 27 May 2020

2 answers

1.2K+ views

Check if pdf is corrupted

Hi,

Is there a way to check if a pdf file is corrupted using pdfprocessing?

i'm working on a upload pdf file tool and it will be nice to check if the pdf is or not corrupted before upload. I've already check if the file header is pdf but some corrupted files gone thought.

Thanks!!

PdfProcessing

answered on 26 May 2020

5 answers

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work with fillable pdf forms?

It seems like the api does not have the ability to read and insert values into a pdf fillable form. Will this feature be implemented in the near future? If so, any timeline? Thanks.

PdfProcessing

answered on 21 May 2020

1 answer

302 views

PdfFormatProvider Export

It appears that the PDF export in the dotnet core/standard version is broken. No font data is retained. Instead all fonts are changed to the default font, font weight, and style. The only font property that is retained through conversion is the size. I noticed that there are others complaining about this in the Framework version but I have not seen any progress in fixing the problem or work around suggested. Is there a way to export to PDF a flex document with some control over the font weight and style?

WordsProcessing

answered on 20 May 2020

1 answer

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Export error when there is custom cell editors

Hi,

I'm implementing custom cell editor using spreadprocessing to create a template for user to export and edit. After they are done, they import back using the Telerik built-in import function. I have no problem when creating the validation in the cells as I followed your example here:

https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/spreadsheet/examples/custom-editors/defaultcs.aspx

When I tried to open the export file, I would get an error : "We found a problem with some content in "abcd.xlsx". Do you want us to try to recover as much as we can? ..." After I clicked 'Yes', my custom cell editors disappeared.

The same error occurs when I export from your demo. However, if I create a spreadsheet with validation from scratch, everything works perfectly.

Please help!

Thank you,

Helen

SpreadProcessing

answered on 14 May 2020

2 answers

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Corrupt Zip Archive; Last file always has some error with it

I'm using Telerik in an interop environment with C++ and trying to replace our old ZIP library. With the code below it appears to ZIP all files correctly except the last file always has some error with it like it isn't being written out properly. I've changed the number and type of files and the specific file type doesn't matter, the last one in the archive is always corrupted when i test the archive.

System::String^ sSource = gcnew System::String(m_sPath1);

System::String^ sDest = gcnew System::String(sZipDest);

System::IO::File^ file = nullptr;

System::IO::Stream^ stream = file->Open(sDest, System::IO::FileMode::Create);

Telerik::Windows::Zip::ZipArchive^ zarchive = gcnew Telerik::Windows::Zip::ZipArchive(stream, Telerik::Windows::Zip::ZipArchiveMode::Create,

false,System::Text::Encoding::UTF8);

Telerik::Windows::Zip::DeflateSettings^ compressionSettings = gcnew Telerik::Windows::Zip::DeflateSettings();

compressionSettings->CompressionLevel = Telerik::Windows::Zip::CompressionLevel::Best;

compressionSettings->HeaderType = Telerik::Windows::Zip::CompressedStreamHeader::ZLib;

pList3->ResetContent();

rc = 0;

nCount = pList1->GetCount();

for (n = 0; n<nCount; n++) {

pList1->GetText(n, sFileName);

sFullyQualifiedFileNameFrom = fs.AppendWildcard(m_sPath1, sFileName);

int nSel = pList3->AddString(sFileName);

pList3->SetCurSel(nSel);

pList3->UpdateWindow();

System::String^ sFull = gcnew System::String(sFullyQualifiedFileNameFrom.GetBuffer());

System::String^ sName = gcnew System::String(sFileName.GetBuffer());

Telerik::Windows::Zip::Extensions::ZipFile::CreateEntryFromFile(zarchive, sFull, sName, compressionSettings);

int nFilesPercent = 100 * (n + 1) / nCount;

m_prStatus.SetPos(nFilesPercent);

}

Sleep(5000);

stream->Flush();

stream->Close();

Is there something else that should be done to finish the compression/writing of the last file when in the loop using CreateEntryFromFile?

ZipLibrary

answered on 13 May 2020

1 answer

473 views

Justify Text

Hi

I'm using RadFixedDocumentEditor to insert several line of text (editor.InsertRun and editor.InsertLine).

I use InsertLine and like HorizontalAlignment = left.

But how can I insert justified line of text ? Is it possible ??

Tanks

PdfProcessing

answered on 11 May 2020

2 answers

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Exporting accented characters in Telerik Document Processing

Hi

I'm using the next code to generate a simple pdf

RadFixedDocumentEditor editor = new RadFixedDocumentEditor(document)

editor.SectionProperties.PageSize = new Size(Unit.MmToDip(210), Unit.MmToDip(297));
editor.ParagraphProperties.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;
editor.CharacterProperties.Font = FontsRepository.TimesRoman;
editor.InsertParagraph();
editor.InsertRun("Test è ò");

This issue is that the è and ò character are NOT printed at all.

Tnx ...

PdfProcessing

answered on 11 May 2020