PDF (landscape) to DOCX (portrait)

GemBox.Document
1

Hey, Mario.

Could you tell me how to change Page view (Landscape to portrait)? Without rotation content!

For example: I have the input PDF (A4 Landscape) and want to get the same text in DOCX or PDF (A4 Portrait).

Thanks

2

Hi,

GemBox.Document has two types of PDF readers: Logical and HighFidelity:

With a logical PDF reader, the Paragraph and Table elements will be recognized from the PDF content and placed in the normal flow of the DocumentModel content.

With a high-fidelity PDF reader, the PDF content is imported into a DocumentModel with elements that have absolute positioning.

When changing the page’s orientation, the absolutely positioned elements won’t be affected; only elements in normal flow will be affected.

So, try using the following:

var pdfLoadOptions = new PdfLoadOptions() { LoadType = PdfLoadType.Logical };
var document = DocumentModel.Load("Input.pdf", pdfLoadOptions);

foreach (var section in document.Sections)
    section.PageSetup.Orientation = Orientation.Portrait;

document.Save("Output.pdf");

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Mario

3

Maybe I can do the same using Gembox.PDF?

4

No, I’m afraid that GemBox.Pdf doesn’t support saving to DOCX.

5

What if PDF (Landscape) to PDF (Portrait) by Gembox.PDF. Is it possible?
Or maybe you have any example: hoe to generate PDF landscape or PDF portrait content?

6

If I understood correctly what you want to achieve, I don’t think that’s possible in PDF because in it the whole content is defined with absolute positioning.

If I perhaps misunderstood you, can you send us a sample PDF in landscape and that same PDF content in portrait so I can observe your exact requirements?

Regarding generating PDF landscape, you just need to set the page’s width and height to the desired value by using the PdfPage.SetMediaBox() method:

using var document = new PdfDocument();

var page = document.Pages.Add();
page.SetMediaBox(page.Size.Height, page.Size.Width);

document.Save("output.pdf");

Regards,
Mario

7

Thanks. Now I got a good result.
Because I thought that page.Rotate () - it’s mean Landscape or Portrait

Now, I see that page.SetMediaBox(page.Size.Height, page.Size.Width); works for me.

Thanks