PDFFile Constructor(string,string)

Summary

Initializes a new PDFFile object and associated it with the name of a PDF file and the password used to decrypt it.

Syntax

C++

Java

public PDFFile( 
   string fileName, 
   string password 
)

Public Function New( _ 
   ByVal fileName As String, _ 
   ByVal password As String _ 
)

public PDFFile( 
   java.lang.String fileName, 
   java.lang.String password 
);

public: 
PDFFile(  
   String^ fileName, 
   String^ password 
)

Parameters

fileName
The name of the file associated with this PDFFile.

password
The password associated with the PDF file at fileName.

Remarks

This constructor will initialize the properties of the PDFFile object as follows:

FileName will be set to fileName
Password will be set to password
DocumentProperties will be set to null
Pages collection will be set to null

After the filename and optional password are set, call the Load method to populate the DocumentProperties and Pages properties of this PDFFile object with the values read from the file.

In certain situation, you may want to associate a PDFFile with a Postscript and not a PDF file. For example, to create a PDFFile object and call its Distill method to convert the Postscript file to PDF.

PDF files password must be 64 ASCII characters or less. This is defined by the PDFDocument.MaximumPasswordLength constant. LEADTOOLS will automatically convert the password string to ASCII and truncate if required.

Example

This example will determine whether a PDF file is encrypted, ask the user for a password then open it.

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Controls; 
using Leadtools.Drawing; 
using Leadtools.ImageProcessing; 
using Leadtools.Pdf; 
using Leadtools.Svg; 
using Leadtools.WinForms; 
 
 
public void PDFFileEncryptedExample() 
{ 
   string pdfFileName1 = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, @"Leadtools.pdf"); 
   string pdfFileName2 = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, @"Encrypted.pdf"); 
 
   // Create an encrypted version of Leadtools.pdf 
   PDFFile file = new PDFFile(pdfFileName1); 
   file.SecurityOptions = new PDFSecurityOptions(); 
   file.SecurityOptions.UserPassword = "LEAD"; 
   file.Convert(1, -1, pdfFileName2); 
 
   // Now try to open it as a document 
   string password = null; 
 
   if (PDFFile.IsEncrypted(pdfFileName2)) 
   { 
      Console.WriteLine("{0}\nIs encrypted. Enter the password:", pdfFileName2); 
      password = Console.ReadLine(); 
   } 
 
   // If the user entered the correct password (LEAD), you can open the file now 
   try 
   { 
      file = new PDFFile(pdfFileName2, password); 
      file.Load(); 
 
      PDFDocumentProperties props = file.DocumentProperties; 
 
      Console.WriteLine("  Title: {0}", props.Title); 
      Console.WriteLine("  Author: {0}", props.Author); 
      Console.WriteLine("  Subject: {0}", props.Subject); 
      Console.WriteLine("  Keywords: {0}", props.Keywords); 
      Console.WriteLine("  Creator: {0}", props.Creator); 
      Console.WriteLine("  Producer: {0}", props.Producer); 
      Console.WriteLine("  Created: {0}", props.Created); 
      Console.WriteLine("  Modified: {0}", props.Modified); 
      Console.WriteLine("----------:"); 
   } 
   catch (Exception ex) 
   { 
      // Otherwise, you will get an error that the PDF file is corrupted 
      Console.WriteLine(ex.Message); 
   } 
} 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS21\Resources\Images"; 
}

Imports Leadtools 
Imports Leadtools.Codecs 
Imports Leadtools.Pdf 
Imports Leadtools.WinForms 
Imports Leadtools.Svg 
Imports Leadtools.ImageProcessing 
 
Public Sub PDFFileEncryptedExample() 
   Dim pdfFileName1 As String = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "Leadtools.pdf") 
   Dim pdfFileName2 As String = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "Encrypted.pdf") 
 
   ' Create an encrypted version of Leadtools.pdf 
   Dim file As PDFFile = New PDFFile(pdfFileName1) 
   file.SecurityOptions = New PDFSecurityOptions() 
   file.SecurityOptions.UserPassword = "LEAD" 
   file.Convert(1, -1, pdfFileName2) 
 
   ' Now try to open it as a document 
   Dim password As String = Nothing 
 
   If PDFFile.IsEncrypted(pdfFileName2) Then 
      Console.WriteLine("{0}" & Constants.vbLf & "Is encrypted. Enter the password:", pdfFileName2) 
      password = Console.ReadLine() 
   End If 
 
   ' If the user entered the correct password (LEAD), you can open the file now 
   Try 
      file = New PDFFile(pdfFileName2, password) 
      file.Load() 
 
      Dim props As PDFDocumentProperties = file.DocumentProperties 
 
      Console.WriteLine("  Title: {0}", props.Title) 
      Console.WriteLine("  Author: {0}", props.Author) 
      Console.WriteLine("  Subject: {0}", props.Subject) 
      Console.WriteLine("  Keywords: {0}", props.Keywords) 
      Console.WriteLine("  Creator: {0}", props.Creator) 
      Console.WriteLine("  Producer: {0}", props.Producer) 
      Console.WriteLine("  Created: {0}", props.Created) 
      Console.WriteLine("  Modified: {0}", props.Modified) 
      Console.WriteLine("----------:") 
   Catch ex As Exception 
      ' Otherwise, you will get an error that the PDF file is corrupted 
      Console.WriteLine(ex.Message) 
   End Try 
End Sub 
 
Public NotInheritable Class LEAD_VARS 
   Public Const ImagesDir As String = "C:\LEADTOOLS21\Resources\Images" 
End Class

Requirements

Target Platforms

Reference

PDFFile Class

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