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Document File Format Conversion With Print2eDoc SDK (Part 2)

Learn how to specify advanced document creation settings in Print2eDoc SDK.

By Avinash Shrigani

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In my last article, you learned about the basics of using Gnostice Print2eDoc SDK. This month, you will learn about using the SDK for specifying advanced document creation settings.

In the Gnostice Print2eDoc application, Document Creation Profiles allow users to save their customized settings for later reuse. Profiles contain document creation settings specific to different output formats. It also includes settings to control additional actions such as e-mail, FTP, NNTP and watermarks.

Naturally, Print2eDoc SDK allows you to create new profiles, access them, and modify them as per your requirements.

In this direction, the CurrentProfile property of the IgtPrint2eDoc will be your main focus. This property is of the type IgtProfileSettings. It contains all format-specific properties for a given profile.

Alternatively, this object can be thought to be representing properties of various controls on the dialog Advance Document Creation Properties in the Print2eDoc application.

Here are the steps for making changes to a profile.

• Set the given profile as current profile using method IgtPrint2eDoc.SelectCurrentProfile(string ProfileName).
   
• Create a reference to the read-only IgtProfileSettings object returned by method IgtPrint2eDoc.CurrentProfile().
   
• Specify new values for the properties of IgtProfileSettings object.
   
• Save your changes to the profile by calling the IgtPrint2eDoc.ApplyChangesToCurrentProfile() method.

Dim PrinterObj As New gtPrint2eDoc

'Create an IgtProfileSettings object
Dim ProfileObj As gtProfileSettingsX

'Set a profile as current
PrinterObj.SelectCurrentProfile ("My Profile")

'Create a reference to the IgtProfileSettings
'object of the current profile
Set ProfileObj = PrinterObj.CurrentProfile

'Specify a few general settings
ProfileObj.DocInfoAuthor = "Avinash Shrigani"
ProfileObj.DocInfoTitle = "Gnostice Print2eDoc SDK Demo"
ProfileObj.DocInfoSubject = _
  "Document File Format Conversion With Print2eDoc SDK - II"
ProfileObj.DocInfoCreator = "Gnostice Print2eDoc SDK"
ProfileObj.DocInfoKeywords = _
  "Advanced Document Creation Settings, Print2eDoc, SDK, demo"

'Specify a few PDF-specific settings
ProfileObj.PDFRenderTextItem = True
ProfileObj.PDFRenderImageItem = True
ProfileObj.PDFRenderDrawingItem = False
ProfileObj.PDFActivateLinks = True

'Save above changes to current profile
PrinterObj.ApplyChangesToCurrentProfile

'Print a document with the new document
'creation settings
PrinterObj.PrintDocument("C:\Sample.txt")