Create(string,CreateDocumentOptions) Method

Summary

Creates a new empty document.

Syntax

C++/CLI

Java

Python

public static LEADDocument Create( 
   string documentType, 
   CreateDocumentOptions options 
)

public:  
   static LEADDocument^ Create( 
      String^ documentType, 
      CreateDocumentOptions^ options 
   )

public static Document create(String documentType, CreateDocumentOptions options)

def Create(self,options):

Parameters

documentType

Document type. Cannot be null.

options

Options to use when creating the document. Cannot be null.

Return Value

The newly created document.

Remarks

Use this method to create a new empty document. documentType controls the type of the document created and the following values are currently supported:

Value	Description
"Raster"	Creates a new Raster document. Requires the `Leadtools.Document.Raster.dll` assembly.
"Pdf"	Creates a new PDF document. Requires the `Leadtools.Document.Pdf.dll` assembly.
"Virtual"	Creates a new empty virtual document ready to be filled with pages from other documents. This is the equivalant of calling DocumentFactory.Create(CreateDocumentOptions)
Any other value	Will throw an exception.

This method will add items with the key "Created", "Accessed" and "Modified" to Metadata with values equal to the current date and time. The newly created LEADDocument object will have an empty list of Pages. It can then be populated by the user.

The member of options are used as follows:

Member	Description
Cache and UseCache	Used to determine if the newly created document will be saved into the cache later.
CachePolicy	If caching is used: Copied to the newly created document and is used to determine when the document and its item are purged from the cache.
DocumentId	The ID to be used with the loaded document. When this value is null (the default), then the document factory will create a new unique ID using a (DocumentFactory.NewCacheId). If the value is not null, then it is assumed to be a user-defined ID and used as is. In either case, the value is set in the LEADDocument.DocumentId property of the newly created document. User-defined IDs can be used when the system already has unique ID's associated with the documents to be viewer. The document factory will not check nor guarantee the uniqueness of these IDs.
MimeType	Copied as is into the newly created document MimeType member. This value can be null but it is recommended you set it to the MIME type of the document since it will be used when saving the document. Use one of the MIME types constants defined in the Constants class. In the case of virtual documents, this value can be left as null.

Example

Java

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Caching; 
using Leadtools.Document; 
 
 
public void DocumentFactoryCreateExample() 
{ 
   var cache = GetCache(); 
 
   // Create a new document 
   var createOptions = new CreateDocumentOptions(); 
   createOptions.Cache = cache; 
   createOptions.Descriptor = null; 
   createOptions.MimeType = null; 
   createOptions.UseCache = true; 
   createOptions.UserId = null; 
 
   Console.WriteLine("Cache Policy: {0}", createOptions.CachePolicy.AbsoluteExpiration); 
 
   string documentId = null; 
 
   using (LEADDocument document = DocumentFactory.Create(createOptions)) 
   { 
      document.Name = "Virtual"; 
 
      // Should have 0 pages and documents 
      System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(document.Pages.Count == 0); 
      System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(document.Documents.Count == 0); // DocumentDocuments reference 
 
      // Add page 1 and 2 from a PDF file 
      LoadDocumentOptions loadOptions = new LoadDocumentOptions(); 
      loadOptions.Cache = cache; 
      LEADDocument childDocument = DocumentFactory.LoadFromFile(Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "Leadtools.pdf"), loadOptions); 
      // Do not dispose the child documents, but save it into the cache 
      // This is optional and is done in this example since we will try to re-load the parent document 
      // from the cache - and the child documents should be in the cache as well 
      childDocument.SaveToCache(); 
      // Now add the pages 
      document.Pages.Add(childDocument.Pages[0]); 
      document.Pages.Add(childDocument.Pages[1]); 
 
      // Add an empty page 
      var documentPage = document.Pages.CreatePage(LeadSizeD.Create(LEADDocument.UnitsPerInch * 8.5, LEADDocument.UnitsPerInch * 11), 300); 
      document.Pages.Add(documentPage); 
 
      // Add page 3 and 4 from a TIF file 
      childDocument = DocumentFactory.LoadFromFile(Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "ocr1.tif"), loadOptions); 
      // Also save it into the cache 
      childDocument.SaveToCache(); 
      // Now add the pages 
      document.Pages.Add(childDocument.Pages[0]); 
      document.Pages.Add(childDocument.Pages[0]); 
 
      // Should have 5 pages and 2 documents (the PDF and the TIF) 
      System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(document.Pages.Count == 5); 
      System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(document.Documents.Count == 2); 
 
      // Tell the parent document to dispose any child documents when the parent is disposed 
      document.AutoDisposeDocuments = true; 
 
      // Show the info of this document, should say 5 pages 
      Console.WriteLine("Original document information"); 
      PrintOutDocumentInfo(document); 
 
      // Now save, the parent document into the cache 
      document.SaveToCache(); 
 
      // And tell all documents to not delete themselves from the cache 
      document.AutoDeleteFromCache = false; 
 
      // Save the ID so we can load it 
      documentId = document.DocumentId; 
   } 
 
   // Now, load the document from the cache 
   var loadFromCacheOptions = new LoadFromCacheOptions(); 
   loadFromCacheOptions.Cache = cache; 
   loadFromCacheOptions.DocumentId = documentId; 
   using (LEADDocument document = DocumentFactory.LoadFromCache(loadFromCacheOptions)) 
   { 
      // Should have 5 pages and 2 documents (the PDF and the TIF) 
      System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(document.Pages.Count == 5); 
      System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(document.Documents.Count == 2); 
 
      // Show the info of this document, should still say 5 pages 
      Console.WriteLine("Loaded from cache information"); 
      PrintOutDocumentInfo(document); 
 
      // Delete first page 
      document.Pages.RemoveAt(0); 
      // Delete the last page 
      document.Pages.RemoveAt(document.Pages.Count - 1); 
 
      // Should have 3 pages and 2 documents (the PDF and the TIF) 
      System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(document.Pages.Count == 3); 
      System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(document.Documents.Count == 2); 
 
      Console.WriteLine("After removing the first 2 pages"); 
      PrintOutDocumentInfo(document); 
 
      // Delete this document and all its children from the cache when we are disposed 
      document.AutoDeleteFromCache = true; 
   } 
} 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS23\Resources\Images"; 
}

 
import java.io.File; 
import java.io.FileInputStream; 
import java.io.FileNotFoundException; 
import java.io.IOException; 
import java.io.InputStream; 
import java.net.URI; 
import java.net.URISyntaxException; 
import java.util.Calendar; 
 
import org.junit.*; 
import org.junit.runner.JUnitCore; 
import org.junit.runner.Result; 
import org.junit.runner.notification.Failure; 
import static org.junit.Assert.*; 
 
import leadtools.*; 
import leadtools.caching.*; 
import leadtools.document.*; 
 
 
public void documentFactoryCreateExample() throws IOException { 
   final String LEAD_VARS_IMAGES_DIR = "C:\\LEADTOOLS23\\Resources\\Images"; 
   FileCache cache = getCache(); 
 
   // Create a new document 
   CreateDocumentOptions createOptions = new CreateDocumentOptions(); 
   createOptions.setCache(cache); 
   createOptions.setDescriptor(null); 
   createOptions.setMimeType(null); 
   createOptions.setUseCache(true); 
 
   System.out.println("Cache Policy: " + createOptions.getCachePolicy().getAbsoluteExpiration()); 
 
   String documentId = null; 
 
   LEADDocument document = DocumentFactory.create(createOptions); 
 
   document.setName("Virtual"); 
 
   // Should have 0 pages and documents 
   assertTrue(document.getPages().size() == 0); 
 
   // Add page 1 and 2 from a PDF file 
   LoadDocumentOptions loadOptions = new LoadDocumentOptions(); 
   loadOptions.setCache(cache); 
   LEADDocument childDocument = DocumentFactory.loadFromFile(combine(LEAD_VARS_IMAGES_DIR, "Leadtools.pdf"), 
         loadOptions); 
   // Do not dispose the child documents, but save it into the cache 
   // This is optional and is done in this example since we will try to re-load the 
   // parent document 
   // from the cache - and the child documents should be in the cache as well 
   childDocument.saveToCache(); 
 
   // Now add the pages 
   document.getPages().add(childDocument.getPages().get(0)); 
   document.getPages().add(childDocument.getPages().get(1)); 
 
   // Add an empty page 
   DocumentPage documentPage = document.getPages() 
         .createPage(LeadSizeD.create(LEADDocument.UNITS_PER_INCH * 8.5, LEADDocument.UNITS_PER_INCH * 11), 300); 
   document.getPages().add(documentPage); 
 
   // Add page 3 and 4 from a TIF file 
   childDocument = DocumentFactory.loadFromFile(combine(LEAD_VARS_IMAGES_DIR, "ocr1.tif"), loadOptions); 
   // Also save it into the cache 
   childDocument.saveToCache(); 
   // Now add the pages 
   document.getPages().add(childDocument.getPages().get(0)); 
   document.getPages().add(childDocument.getPages().get(0)); 
 
   // Should have 5 pages and 2 documents (the PDF and the TIF) 
   assertTrue(document.getPages().size() == 5); 
   assertTrue(document.getDocuments().size() == 2); 
 
   // Tell the parent document to dispose any child documents when the parent is 
   // disposed 
   document.setAutoDisposeDocuments(false); 
 
   // Show the info of this document, should say 5 pages 
   System.out.println("Original document information"); 
   printOutDocumentInfo(document); 
 
   // Now save, the parent document into the cache 
   document.saveToCache(); 
 
   // And tell all documents to not delete themselves from the cache 
   document.setAutoDeleteFromCache(false); 
   // Save the ID so we can load it 
   document.dispose(); 
   documentId = document.getDocumentId(); 
   System.out.println("Docu: " + documentId); 
 
   // Now, load the document from the cache 
   LoadFromCacheOptions loadFromCacheOptions = new LoadFromCacheOptions(); 
   loadFromCacheOptions.setCache(cache); 
   loadFromCacheOptions.setDocumentId(documentId); 
   System.out.println("Load: " + loadFromCacheOptions.getDocumentId()); 
   document = DocumentFactory.loadFromCache(loadFromCacheOptions); 
 
   // Should have 5 pages and 2 documents (the PDF and the TIF) 
   assertTrue(document.getPages().size() == 5); 
   assertTrue(document.getDocuments().size() == 2); 
 
   // Show the info of this document, should still say 5 pages 
   System.out.println("Loaded from cache information"); 
   printOutDocumentInfo(document); 
 
   // Delete first page 
   document.getPages().remove(0); 
   document.getPages().remove(document.getPages().size() - 1); 
   // Delete the last page 
   // Should have 3 pages and 2 documents (the PDF and the TIF) 
   assertTrue(document.getPages().size() == 3); 
   assertTrue(document.getDocuments().size() == 2); 
 
   System.out.println("After removing the first 2 pages"); 
   printOutDocumentInfo(document); 
 
   // Delete this document and all its children from the cache when we are disposed 
   document.setAutoDeleteFromCache(true); 
   document.dispose(); 
}

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Reference

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