Leadtools documentViewer.setDocument() method: How to skip calls to GetImage and GetSVG?

The setDocument method is kind of a black box to us but what it looks like is it calls out for each page of a document the getImage or getSvg method in the Document Factory in the API.

However, for documents with large numbers of pages, we are seeing these calls block a call to another API and forcing this call to wait until the getImage/Svg calls have returned

Without going into too much detail, right now we want to skip all calls to GetImage and GetSvg from from setDocument method. Is this possible? Can we trigger the getting of document data manually and NOT have setDocument do it?

Thanks for any help.

Hello,

Thank you for posting your question on the LEADTOOLS Technical Forums.

If you are wanting to skip, or block all calls to the GetImage/GetSvg methods that are fired when setDocument is called, you can hook into the operation event for the Document Viewer, and abort the request(s) there. The event that is made to get the image/svg data is GetPage. Here is our documentation for operation event: https://www.leadtools.co...entviewer-operation.html

You can also find the enumeration for all the Document Viewer operations here: https://www.leadtools.co...mentvieweroperation.html

You can find all the events that are fired when you call setDocument in our documentation here: https://www.leadtools.co...viewer-setdocument.html#!

If you wanted to go about doing it in this fashion, you would have to incorporate when a page should be rendered/displayed, and when the GetImage/GetSvg methods should be aborted.

That being said, by default, the Document Viewer will attempt to load all images when the document is ready. To increase performance for particularly large documents, you could enable lazy loading. This will force the Document Viewer to only load images when they are made visible on the screen. The lazyLoad property can be toggled on and off at any point. Here is our documentation for this property: https://www.leadtools.co...viewerview-lazyload.html

If you have any further questions or technical issues, please feel free to let me know.

I've added the following code to my documentViewer initialization:

this.documentViewer.operation.add((sender, e) => {
if (e.operation == lt.Documents.UI.DocumentViewerOperation.getPage && !e.isPostOperation) {
e.abort = true;
}
});

I put a breakpoint on the e.abort=true and my code does make it there.
However, I still see the getImage/getSVG requests getting fired off to the API.

This seems to be what the example you sent does as well.

I'm running this is an Angular2/TypeScript application with Leadtools V19.

Hello,

In order to abort the getPage event, you will need to access the underlying ImageLoader object that is associated with the event. This object can be retrieved from e.data1. Once you have the ImageLoader, you can simply call the abort() method to cancel the request. If the document has back images, you can access the imageLoader that is loading the backimages through e.data2. All and all, the event method should look like this to cancel the getPage event:


This will just abort grabbing the main Image Data for the page -- this will not prevent the thumbnails from loading. You would have to add additional logic to abort loading thumbnails.

Here is our relevant documentation for the ImageLoader object:
https://www.leadtools.co...ript/l/imageloader.html#!
https://www.leadtools.co...l/imageloader-abort.html

If you have any further questions or concerns, please feel free to let me know.

That did the trick! Thank you.