EVO HTML to PDF Converter allows you to replace in the generated PDF document the original images from HTML document with higher quality images from the local file system. This feature is based on capability of the converter to retrieve the position in the generated PDF document of the image from HTML document as documented in the Select in API the HTML Elements to Retrieve section.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Drawing;
// Use EVO PDF Namespace
using EvoPdfClient;
namespace EvoHtmlToPdfDemo.HTML_to_PDF.Images_Quality
{
public partial class Replace_with_Higher_Quality_Images : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void convertToPdfButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// Get the server IP and port
String serverIP = textBoxServerIP.Text;
uint serverPort = uint.Parse(textBoxServerPort.Text);
// Create a HTML to PDF converter object
HtmlToPdfConverter htmlToPdfConverter = null;
if (radioButtonUseTcpService.Checked)
htmlToPdfConverter = new HtmlToPdfConverter(serverIP, serverPort);
else
htmlToPdfConverter = new HtmlToPdfConverter(true, textBoxWebServiceUrl.Text);
// Set optional service password
if (textBoxServicePassword.Text.Length > 0)
htmlToPdfConverter.ServicePassword = textBoxServicePassword.Text;
// Set license key received after purchase to use the converter in licensed mode
// Leave it not set to use the converter in demo mode
htmlToPdfConverter.LicenseKey = "4W9+bn19bn5ue2B+bn1/YH98YHd3d3c=";
// Set an adddional delay in seconds to wait for JavaScript or AJAX calls after page load completed
// Set this property to 0 if you don't need to wait for such asynchcronous operations to finish
htmlToPdfConverter.ConversionDelay = 2;
// Select all images from HTML page
htmlToPdfConverter.HtmlElementsMappingOptions.HtmlElementSelectors = new string[] { "img" };
// Exclude the original images from rendering becuase they will be replaced by an image from local file system
htmlToPdfConverter.HiddenHtmlElementsSelectors = new string[] { "img" };
// Convert a HTML string with images to replace to a PDF document object
Document pdfDocument = htmlToPdfConverter.ConvertUrlToPdfDocumentObject(urlTextBox.Text);
// Replace the images selected in HTML using special attributes with images from local file system
int mappingsCount = htmlToPdfConverter.HtmlElementsMappingOptions.HtmlElementsMappingResult.Count;
for (int i = 0; i < mappingsCount; i++)
{
HtmlElementMapping imageElementInfo = htmlToPdfConverter.HtmlElementsMappingOptions.HtmlElementsMappingResult.GetByIndex(i);
PdfPage imagePdfPage = pdfDocument.GetPage(imageElementInfo.PdfRectangles[0].PageIndex);
RectangleFloat imageRectangle = imageElementInfo.PdfRectangles[0].Rectangle;
ImageElement newImageElement = new ImageElement(imageRectangle.X, imageRectangle.Y, imageRectangle.Width, imageRectangle.Height,
Server.MapPath("~/DemoAppFiles/Input/Images/box.jpg"));
newImageElement.EnlargeEnabled = true;
imagePdfPage.AddElement(newImageElement);
}
// Save the PDF document in a memory buffer
byte[] outPdfBuffer = pdfDocument.Save();
// Send the PDF as response to browser
// Set response content type
Response.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/pdf");
// Instruct the browser to open the PDF file as an attachment or inline
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", String.Format("attachment; filename=Replace_with_Higher_Quality_Images.pdf; size={0}", outPdfBuffer.Length.ToString()));
// Write the PDF document buffer to HTTP response
Response.BinaryWrite(outPdfBuffer);
// End the HTTP response and stop the current page processing
Response.End();
}
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!IsPostBack)
{
sampleCodeLiteral.Text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath("~/DemoAppFiles/Input/Code_Samples/CSharp/AspNet/HTML_to_PDF/Images_Quality/Replace_with_Higher_Quality.html"));
descriptionLiteral.Text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath("~/DemoAppFiles/Input/Descriptions/AspNet/HTML_to_PDF/Images_Quality/Replace_with_Higher_Quality.html"));
Master.CollapseAll();
Master.ExpandNode("HTML_to_PDF");
Master.ExpandNode("Images_Quality");
Master.SelectNode("Replace_Images");
}
}
protected void demoMenu_MenuItemClick(object sender, MenuEventArgs e)
{
switch (e.Item.Value)
{
case "Live_Demo":
demoMultiView.SetActiveView(liveDemoView);
break;
case "Description":
demoMultiView.SetActiveView(descriptionView);
break;
case "Sample_Code":
demoMultiView.SetActiveView(sampleCodeView);
break;
default:
break;
}
}
protected void viewHtmlLinkButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.Redirect(urlTextBox.Text);
}
}
}