DARenderPageToVariant

Direct access functionality, Rendering and printing

Description

Renders the specified page from the specified document to an image and returns the image data as a byte array variant

By default rendering uses the GDI+ system which is available in Windows XP and later

Option 10, TIFF (G4) output, is only available on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and later

It is also possible to render using Cairo, use the SetCairoFileName and SelectRenderer

functions

Syntax

ActiveX

Function PDFlib::DARenderPageToVariant(FileHandle As Long, PageRef As Long, Options As Long, DPI As Double) As Variant

Parameters

FileHandle

A handle returned by the DAOpenFile, DAOpenFileReadOnly or

DAOpenFromStream functions

PageRef

A page reference returned by the DAFindPage or DANewPage functions

Options

0 = BMP output

1 = JPEG output

2 = WMF output

3 = EMF output

4 = EPS output

5 = PNG output

6 = GIF output

7 = TIFF output

8 = EMF+ output

9 = HTML5 output

10 = G4 TIFF output

DPI

The DPI to use when rendering the page. Values over 300 will cause excessive memory usage