Declaration
procedure SaveToFilePDF(const FileName: WideString);
Description
Saves the current image or
layers to a file in Adobe PDF format.
FileName is the file name including extension.
The size of the page will be specified by
PDF_PaperWidth and
PDF_PaperHeight. Margins are specified by
PDF_PageMargin.
Image position and size is affected by
PDF_ImageOptions.
The following
TIELayer features are not supported when exporting to PDF:
◼ Gradient fills
◼ Mask layers◼ For text layers, only 90 deg.
rotations are supported.
Rich text formatting is not supported. To work around this,You might want to
convert the text layers to images before saving.
![](PDFFile.png)
Note:
◼ If
PdfViewer is enabled, all pages of the
PdfViewer will be saved
◼ Otherwise the created file will have only one page. See
CreatePDFFile to create multi-page PDF files.
◼ If an internal save error is encountered
Aborting will return true. Saving issues due to insufficient write permissions and disk write failures will raise an exception.
◼ To abort while saving set
Aborting to true
◼ Read more about
ImageEn PDF SupportExample 1
// Convert a BMP image to PDF
ImageEnView1.IO.LoadFromFile('C:\input.bmp');
ImageEnView1.IO.SaveToFilePDF('D:\output.pdf');
Example 2
// Create a scalable PDF document containing text and a shape
ImageEnView1.Blank;
// Add a yellow explosion shape layer at size 220 x 120
ImageEnView1.LayersAdd( iesExplosion, 50, 50, 220, 120 );
ImageEnView1.CurrentLayer.FillColor := clYellow;
ImageEnView1.CurrentLayer.BorderWidth := 0;
// Add a text layer
ImageEnView1.LayersAdd( ielkText );
ImageEnView1.LayersAdd( 'This is an Explosion', 42, clRed, 'Arial Black', [fsBold] );
ImageEnView1.CurrentLayer.PosX := IELayer_Pos_HCenter;
ImageEnView1.CurrentLayer.PosY := IELayer_Pos_VCenter;
ImageEnView1.Update();
// Save it
ImageEnView1.IO.SaveToFilePDF('D:\Explosion.pdf');
Example 3
// Merge two PDF documents
ImageEnView1.PdfViewer.Enabled := True;
ImageEnView1.IO.LoadFromFilePDF( 'C:\document.pdf' );
ImageEnView1.PdfViewer.ImportPages( 'C:\morepages.pdf' );
ImageEnView1.IO.SaveToFilePDF( 'C:\merged.pdf' );
See Also
◼ CreatePDFFile◼ SaveToPDF◼ IECreatePDFFromFileList