PDFsharp Sample: Split Document

Modified on 2015/09/14 10:21 by Thomas Hövel — Categorized as: PDFsharp Samples, Samples

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This sample shows how to convert a PDF document with n pages into n documents with one page each.

PDF Output File

See the PDF files created by this sample:

First page: output.pdf (31 kB)
Second page: output.pdf (17 kB)

Note:  the sample creates six pages from the sample document, only two pages are provided here.

Screen Shots

Here are two sample screen shots:

Screen shot of page 1 Screen shot of page 2
Note:  the sample creates six pages from the sample document, only two pages are shown here.

Source Code

This is the whole source code needed to create the PDF file:
// Get a fresh copy of the sample PDF file
const string filename = "Portable Document Format.pdf";
File.Copy(Path.Combine("../../../../../PDFs/", filename), 
  Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), filename), true);
 
// Open the file
PdfDocument inputDocument = PdfReader.Open(filename, PdfDocumentOpenMode.Import);
 
string name = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(filename);
for (int idx = 0; idx < inputDocument.PageCount; idx++)
{
  // Create new document
  PdfDocument outputDocument = new PdfDocument();
  outputDocument.Version = inputDocument.Version;
  outputDocument.Info.Title =
    String.Format("Page {0} of {1}", idx + 1, inputDocument.Info.Title);
  outputDocument.Info.Creator = inputDocument.Info.Creator;
 
  // Add the page and save it
  outputDocument.AddPage(inputDocument.Pages[idx]);
  outputDocument.Save(String.Format("{0} - Page {1}_tempfile.pdf", name, idx + 1));
}

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