2.17 PDF Document Output

The PdfFileWriter creates PDF documents. The main class PdfDocument constructor gives you two choices to save the document. The first choice is to save the PDF file to a disk file. In this case you provide the constuctor with a file name. At the end of file creation, you call PdfDocument.CreateFile. This method writes the PDF to the file and closes the file.

// create main class
PdfDocument Document = new PdfDocument(PaperType.Letter, false, UnitOfMeasure.Inch, FileName);

// terminate
Document.CreateFile();

The second choice is a stream. You create a stream, either memory stream or a file stream, and you pass the stream as an argument to the PdfDocument constructor. After CreateFile method is executed, your stream contains the PDF document. Extract the document from the stream as appropriate to your application. You must close the stream in your application.

// create memory stream
MemoryStream PdfStream = new MemoryStream();

// create main class
PdfDocument Document = new PdfDocument(PaperType.Letter, false, UnitOfMeasure.Inch, PdfStream);

// terminate
Document.CreateFile();

// save the memory stream to a file
FileStream FS = new FileStream(FileName, FileMode.Create);
PdfStream.WriteTo(FS);
PdfStream.Close();
FS.Close();