Leadtools.Forms.DocumentWriters Namespace > DocumentWriter Class : BeginDocument Method |
public void BeginDocument( string fileName, DocumentFormat format )
'Declaration Public Sub BeginDocument( _ ByVal fileName As String, _ ByVal format As DocumentFormat _ )
'Usage Dim instance As DocumentWriter Dim fileName As String Dim format As DocumentFormat instance.BeginDocument(fileName, format)
public void BeginDocument( string fileName, DocumentFormat format )
public: void BeginDocument( String^ fileName, DocumentFormat format )
The DocumentWriter and the LEADTOOLS Document Writers toolkit is used to create multi-page and searchable documents from one or more Windows Enhanced Meta File (EMF) objects.
Support for various popular formats is included, such as PDF, XPS, DOC, HTML, RTF or Text. For a list of all the document formats supported, refer to the DocumentFormat enumeration.
To create a document from EMF, perform the following steps:
The Windows Enhanced Meta File (EMF) objects can be obtained from various sources, for example:
Many of the document formats supported by DocumentWriter contain extra options and functionality that can be controlled through the use of the DocumentWriter.GetOptions and DocumentWriter.GetOptions methods. These options can be set and then saved to an external XML file using the DocumentWriter.SaveOptions method. Later, you can re-load these options using the DocumentWriter.LoadOptions method.
Support is provided to monitor the document creation operation through the DocumentWriter.Progress event. Your application can provide a visual feedback using a progress bar and a cancel button to the user to allow both monitoring and the ability to abort the current operation.
The LEADTOOLS Temporary Document format (DocumentFormat.Ltd) allows you to create a temporary document on disk that you can add pages to in between sessions. This can be helpful when you have large amount of pages to add to a PDF document when not all the pages can be obtained at the same time (for example, in a server scenario when the client sends one page to the server at a time). After all pages are added to the temporary file on disk, you can use the DocumentWriter.Convert method to convert this file to the final document (for example PDF or DOC).
You can also use the DocumentWriter.AppendLtd method to append pages from one LTD file to another.
Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2