Make Thumbnail from PDF - C#
PDF Renderer SDK sample in C# demonstrating ‘Make Thumbnail from PDF’
Program.cs
using System.Drawing;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFRenderer;
namespace MakeThumbnail
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
// Create an instance of Bytescout.PDFRenderer.RasterRenderer object and register it
RasterRenderer renderer = new RasterRenderer();
renderer.RegistrationName = "demo";
renderer.RegistrationKey = "demo";
// Load PDF document
renderer.LoadDocumentFromFile("multipage.pdf");
// Get size of the page in Points (standard PDF document units; 1 Point = 1/72")
RectangleF rectangle = renderer.GetPageRectangle(0);
int width, height;
if (rectangle.Width < rectangle.Height) // portrait page orientation
{
width = -1; // width will be calculated from height keeping the aspect ratio
height = 100;
}
else // landscape page orientation
{
width = 100;
height = -1; // height will be calculated from width keeping the aspect ratio
}
// Render first page of the document to JPEG image file
renderer.Save("thumbnail.jpg", RasterImageFormat.JPEG, 0, width, height);
// Cleanup
renderer.Dispose();
// Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("thumbnail.jpg");
processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
Process.Start(processStartInfo);
}
}
}