ExtractFilePagesExA

Document manipulation, Extraction, Page manipulation

Description

The trailing A denotes the ANSI (char) DLL entry point; the ActiveX/COM surface exposes only the Unicode form. Behaviour is identical to ExtractFilePagesEx and string arguments are interpreted using the current SetAnsiMode code page

Similar to the ExtractFilePages function but is able to generate smaller output files using cross reference streams rather than a cross reference table

Options can be logically OR'd to together to invoke multiple options

For example Options = 3 ( 1 + 2) will Use a cross reference stream (smaller output file size) and also Remove all AcroForm and XFA based FormFields as well as Usage Rights

Syntax

Delphi

Function DLExtractFilePagesExA(InstanceID: Integer; InputFileName, Password, OutputFileName, RangeList: PAnsiChar; Options: Integer): Integer;

DLL

int DLExtractFilePagesExA(int InstanceID, const char * InputFileName, const char * Password, const char * OutputFileName, const char * RangeList, int Options);

Parameters

InputFileNameThe path and name of the document that contains the pages to extract. The password to use when opening the document
Password
OutputFileNameThe path and name of the document to create containing the extracted pages. The pages to extract, for example "10,15,18-20,25-35". Invalid characters will be ignored. Reversed page ranges such as "5-1" will be accepted. Duplicate page numbers will be accepted but if a change is made to such a page the same changes will appear on the duplicate pages. The list of pages will not be sorted so the resulting document will have the pages in the specified order
RangeList
Options0 = Use a cross reference table 1 = Use a cross reference stream (smaller output file size) 2 = Remove all AcroForm and XFA based FormFields as well as Usage Rights

Return values

0The pages could not be extracted. Use the LastErrorCode function to determine the cause of the failure
1The pages were extracted successfully