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I'm having some issues with creating PDF's, which I suspect is my own fault!

I am trying to create a PDF with a background image. That is it.

This is from a Project (Visual Studio 2012) although it's a website.

public static string CreateTest()
{
try
{
string directory = @"C:\Users\Dave\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\Website\LifeCry\LifeCry\Content\Poster\";

PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument();
PdfPage page = document.AddPage();
document.Options.NoCompression = true;
document.Options.ColorMode = PdfColorMode.Cmyk;
document.Version = 14;
page.Size = PdfSharp.PageSize.A4;

XImage xImagePosterBackground = XImage.FromFile(directory + "LifeCryPosterA4.jpg");

XGraphics graphics = XGraphics.FromPdfPage(page);

graphics.DrawImage(xImagePosterBackground, new XPoint(0, 0));

string fileName = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyMMddhhmmss") + ".pdf";

document.Save(directory + fileName);

return "../Content/Poster/" + fileName;
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{
string s = ex.ToString();
System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(false, "beep beep, it failed!");
//TODO - impelement me (yeah, what ever)
}
}

The issue is the page exports/renders incorrectly in anything but FireFox. This means, in IE, Chrome, PDX-XChange and PhotoShop, it renders incorrectly. See attached for screen shots of how it renders and how it should be.

Here, I hope, you can see the issue.

Is this a fault with my code? Any advice would be appreciated.

Dave

Hi!

I presume your code will work under Windows XP.

Here's a proposed change that may work with Windows NT 6.0 through 6.3 (aka Vista, 7, 8, 8.1):
viewtopic.php?p=6963#p6963

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Thomas Hoevel
PDFsharp Team

Thank you for the reply but the post cited has left me confused.

The post suggests the following



But, as far as I know, doesn't have a path property.

Either way, I can just create a string reference but, I don't see how I then pass this from a memory object into an XImage

The change has to go to the XImage.cs file - and there is a path member (or _path).

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Regards
Thomas Hoevel
PDFsharp Team

I did what you suggested so the ximage.cs file now looks like



This made no difference I'm afraid to say.

Thank you for your quick replies so far, it is appreciated.

Do you know what I've done wrong?