GetFormatFriendlyName Method

Summary

Gets the friendly name of the specified document format.

Syntax

Objective-C

C++/CLI

Java

Python

public static string GetFormatFriendlyName( 
   DocumentFormat format 
)

+ (NSString *)friendlyNameForFormat:(LTDocumentFormat)format

public static String getFormatFriendlyName(DocumentFormat format)

public: 
static String^ GetFormatFriendlyName(  
   DocumentFormat format 
)

def GetFormatFriendlyName(self,format):

Parameters

format
The document format requested.

Return Value

A String containing the friendly name for the specified format.

Remarks

This method will return a friendly name used for format. For example, Adobe PDF files will return a string similar to "Adobe PDF" and Microsoft Word 2003 documents will return "Microsoft Word" and so forth. You can use this value in your application when presenting the user with a list to select a format to save the documents.

For more information on the various document formats supported by the LEADTOOLS Document Writers, refer to DocumentFormat.

To get the file extension for a particular document format, use GetFormatFileExtension.

Example

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Document.Writer; 
using Leadtools.Ocr; 
 
 
public void DocumentWriterExample() 
{ 
   var inputFileName = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "test.docx"); 
   var outputFileName = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "Example.pdf"); 
 
   // Setup a new RasterCodecs object 
   var codecs = new RasterCodecs(); 
   codecs.Options.RasterizeDocument.Load.Resolution = 300; 
 
   // Get the number of pages in the input document 
   var pageCount = codecs.GetTotalPages(inputFileName); 
 
   // Create a new instance of the LEADTOOLS Document Writer 
   var docWriter = new DocumentWriter(); 
 
   // Change the PDF options 
   var pdfOptions = docWriter.GetOptions(DocumentFormat.Pdf) as PdfDocumentOptions; 
   pdfOptions.DocumentType = PdfDocumentType.PdfA; 
   docWriter.SetOptions(DocumentFormat.Pdf, pdfOptions); 
 
   // Create a new PDF document 
   Debug.WriteLine("Creating new PDF document: {0}", outputFileName); 
   docWriter.BeginDocument(outputFileName, DocumentFormat.Pdf); 
 
   // Loop through all the pages 
   for (var pageNumber = 1; pageNumber <= pageCount; pageNumber++) 
   { 
      // Get the page as SVG 
      Debug.WriteLine("Loading page {0}", pageNumber); 
      var page = new DocumentWriterSvgPage(); 
      page.SvgDocument = codecs.LoadSvg(inputFileName, pageNumber, null); 
 
      // Add the page 
      Debug.WriteLine("Adding page {0}", pageNumber); 
      docWriter.AddPage(page); 
 
      page.SvgDocument.Dispose(); 
   } 
 
   // Finally finish writing the PDF file on disk 
   docWriter.EndDocument(); 
   codecs.Dispose(); 
} 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS22\Resources\Images"; 
}