{WB24} Image control and PDFs

Hi guys,

Can an Image Control display an image of a PDF?

I've dropped an image control onto a page and as the online Help states I just need the following code:

IMG_Control = sFilename

...but nothing is displayed!

The thing that makes me think it is possible is that if I paste the path/filename into the Image Control's "Image" field at design time - the image of the PDF is displayed in the page designer.

Very strange!

My web page accepts the path/filename as a parameter, so as a test, I've added a button that uses fFileExist to make sure that file exists - and it finds the file no problem.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or if it's even possible to do what I'm trying to do?

Online Help is here:
[help.windev.com]

Regards,
Darren.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/22/2020 12:37PM by DarrenF.

As far as i know only in WD

[help.windev.com]

Regards

Paulo Oliveira

Thanks Paulo.

Even though I'm testing in Windows, I'm going to try changing the permissions of the PDF and also try to display a JPG or PNG image - at least that should prove that it's the PDF file type that is causing the issue?

I'll report back...

Regards,
Darren.

Darren,

How about using PDFExtractPage() to extract a copy of a page as an image variable and saving that to an image file and then pointing to that image file in the control?

JP

Hi JP,

Yeah, I spotted that, but imagine my disappointment when the Help page seems to imply that it doesn't work with WB

I'm not at my dev machine at the moment, but I'll still try it and report back...

Regards,
Darren.

Ok... reporting back...

I changed the permissions on the file to allow "Users" all access and other Admins etc. already had the permissions - and no luck - still nothing displayed

Also tried PDFExtractPage function and that just gives a "function not available in Webdev" message!

...BUT I've figured it out!!! If you want to use an image control to display an image of your PDF document, all you need to do is a simple properties change. So (obviously) double click the image control, on the properties "General" tab, change the value of "The transformation is calculated for:" drop-down from the default of "Browser" to "Server" ...and that's it!

Regards,
Darren.