Scanning

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   Up until now, I just have been using QuickPDF for printing.  Now, I want to scan documents and save them as PDFs.  I am able to scan the documents as bitmaps, without a problem.  To add the image, I have tried  "QP.AddImageFromStream."  I also tried saving the bitmap as a file and then call "QP.AddImageFromFile."  The bitmap file is correct.  To draw the image, I have tried both "QP.DrawScaledImage" and "QP.DrawImage."  I have also varied the parameters, with each of the methods.  The PDF file size indicates that the bitmap is saved to the PDF; however, the only part that is visible a black border at the bottom of the scanned page.  I am able to add text, to the same PDF, with QP.DrawText, without a problem.

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David

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bb46970 Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 06 Mar 06 Status: Offline Points: 33	Post Options Post Reply Quote bb46970 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Scanning Posted: 11 Feb 07 at 5:39PM
	Up until now, I just have been using QuickPDF for printing. Now, I want to scan documents and save them as PDFs. I am able to scan the documents as bitmaps, without a problem. To add the image, I have tried "QP.AddImageFromStream." I also tried saving the bitmap as a file and then call "QP.AddImageFromFile." The bitmap file is correct. To draw the image, I have tried both "QP.DrawScaledImage" and "QP.DrawImage." I have also varied the parameters, with each of the methods. The PDF file size indicates that the bitmap is saved to the PDF; however, the only part that is visible a black border at the bottom of the scanned page. I am able to add text, to the same PDF, with QP.DrawText, without a problem. Thanks David

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3529	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Feb 07 at 1:51AM
	Hi! I've no problems with these functions. Perhaps you should try SetOrigin and/or SetMeasurementUnits... Posting a code-snippet here could be helpful to help ;-) Best regards, Ingo

bb46970 Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 06 Mar 06 Status: Offline Points: 33	Post Options Post Reply Quote bb46970 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Feb 07 at 2:12AM
	I have a lot of commented-out code, because I was trying so many different things. Basically, I got down to this: Image.SaveToFile('test.bmp'); iID := QP.AddImageFromFile('test.bmp', 0); if iID <> 0 then begin QP.SetTransparency(0); QP.SelectImage(iID); QP.DrawText(100, 500, 'Page 1'); QP.NewPage(); QP.DrawScaledImage(0, 0, 1); QP.SaveToFile('test.pdf'); end; After you post, I added: QP.SetOrigin(1); which got the image to draw. However, the sizing was off. I added: QP.SetMeasurementUnits(2); and changed DrawScaledImage to: QP.DrawImage(0, 0, 8.5, 11); It seems to work now. Thanks.

ukobsa Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 29 May 06 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 115	Post Options Post Reply Quote ukobsa Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Feb 07 at 3:12AM
	Hi, just a small explanation: default setting for QuickPDF is to have it's origin on bottom-left. DrawImage uses as position the top-left corner of the image. So when you draw an image at position (0,0) it is drawn completely outside the page (exactly: below the page). SetOrigin(1) now sets QuickPDFs origin to top-left so that now drawing an image at (0,0) starts to draw it in the top-left corner of the page. HTH, Ulrich