Note: To be able to use the samples you must install novaPDF SDK as samples work only with it. Download it here: nova PDF SDK.
Basically the sample determines the active profile, makes a copy of it into a profile called "Test C#", sets the new profile as active, sets the subject of the generated PDF document, prints a page, and restores original printer settings. The location of the generated document depends on whatever the settings are for the current active profile.
Notice
Because of the specific exception based error handling in .NET, all calls to methods in the INovaPDFOptions interface must be nested within a try-catch block. Consider for example that we want to add a profile called "test", but the profile "test" already exists. Then the call pNova.AddProfile("test") will throw an "System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException". with the ErrorCode property set to NV_PROFILE_EXISTS (0xD5DA0006).
Source code
using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Printing;
using System.Windows.Forms;
// the novapiLib package must be added as a COM refference
using novapiLib;
namespace Hello_World_CSharp
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for Class1.
/// </summary>
class Class1
{
/// <summary>
/// The main entry point for the application.
/// </summary>
public static string PRINTER_NAME = "novaPDF Pro v6";
public static string NOVAPDF_INFO_SUBJECT = "Document Subject";
public static uint NV_PROFILE_EXISTS = 0xD5DA0006;
public static string PROFILE_NAME = "Test C#";
public static int PROFILE_IS_PUBLIC = 0;
[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
// create the NovaPdfOptions object
NovaPdfOptions pNova = new NovaPdfOptions();
// initialize the NovaPdfOptions object
// if you have an application license for novaPDF SDK,
// pass both the registration name and the license key to the Initialize() function
// pNova.Initialize(PRINTER_NAME, "<registration name>", "<license key>", "<application name>");
pNova.Initialize(PRINTER_NAME, "", "", "");
// get the active profile ...
string activeProfile;
int nActivePublic;
pNova.GetActiveProfile(out activeProfile, out nActivePublic);
try
{
// and make a copy of it
pNova.CopyProfile(activeProfile, PROFILE_NAME, PROFILE_IS_PUBLIC);
}
catch (System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException e)
{
// ignore profile exists error
if (NV_PROFILE_EXISTS == e.ErrorCode)
{
System.Console.WriteLine("Profile Test C# already exists");
}
else
{
// more serious error, propagate it
throw e;
}
}
// set the copy profile as active profile ...
pNova.SetActiveProfile(PROFILE_NAME, PROFILE_IS_PUBLIC);
// and set some options
pNova.SetOptionString(NOVAPDF_INFO_SUBJECT, "C# Hello document", PROFILE_NAME, PROFILE_IS_PUBLIC);
// print a test page, using the previously set active profile settings
using (PrintDocument pd = new PrintDocument())
{
pd.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = PRINTER_NAME;
pd.PrintPage += new PrintPageEventHandler(PrintPageFunction);
pd.Print();
}
pNova.SetActiveProfile(activeProfile, nActivePublic);
pNova.DeleteProfile(PROFILE_NAME, PROFILE_IS_PUBLIC);
}
catch (System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Message);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Message);
}
}
// and finally the function that actually prints the page
private static void PrintPageFunction(object sender, PrintPageEventArgs ev)
{
string str = "novaPDF says Hello World from C#";
Font font = new Font("Arial", 16);
Brush brush = new SolidBrush(Color.Black);
ev.Graphics.DrawString(str, font, brush, 20.0f, 20.0f);
ev.HasMorePages = false;
}
}
}
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