How to preview selected Content Stream?

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   How can I see the Selected Content Stream? I have a pdf with 2 Content Stream count. I want to see the preview of selected Content Stream to delete. Can anyone please help me? I am using following code:
  QP:=TQuickPDF0815.Create;
  QP.UnlockKey('XXXXXXXX');
  QP.LoadFromFile(ListView1.Items[0].SubItems[2],'');
  //ShowMessage(IntToStr(QP.ContentStreamCount)); (2)
  QP.SelectContentStream(2);
  QP.DeleteContentStream;
  QP.SaveToFile('d:\new.pdf');

Many thanks in advance.

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ExchangeViews Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 13 Mar 12 Status: Offline Points: 38	Post Options Post Reply Quote ExchangeViews Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: How to preview selected Content Stream? Posted: 19 Jun 12 at 1:18PM
	How can I see the Selected Content Stream? I have a pdf with 2 Content Stream count. I want to see the preview of selected Content Stream to delete. Can anyone please help me? I am using following code: QP:=TQuickPDF0815.Create; QP.UnlockKey('XXXXXXXX'); QP.LoadFromFile(ListView1.Items[0].SubItems[2],''); //ShowMessage(IntToStr(QP.ContentStreamCount)); (2) QP.SelectContentStream(2); QP.DeleteContentStream; QP.SaveToFile('d:\new.pdf'); Many thanks in advance.

AndrewC Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 08 Dec 10 Location: Geelong, Aust Status: Offline Points: 841	Post Options Post Reply Quote AndrewC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 Jun 12 at 12:12PM
	It is not always safe to delete a content stream unless the PDF is created with this deletion in mind. Content streams are like a pages of a book. Sentences, words, paragraphs can be broken across multiple pages. If you rip out a page then it it very likely that the book no longer makes sense - ie broken words, sentence, paragraph. If the page was a single page chapter then it might be possible to rip out the page but still be able to read the book without syntax or spelling errors but the but book has to be designed that way in the first place. There are no fixed rules as to how content streams are to be stored. ContentStream 1= "The Quick" ContentStream 2= "brown fo" ContentStream 3= "x jumped over the " ContentStream 4= "lazy " ContentStream 5= "dogs back" If you delete stream 4 then it reads "the quick brown fox jumped over the dogs back" If you delete stream 2 then it reads "the quick x jumped over the lazy dogs back" A PDF works in exactly the same way and if there is a syntax error then the PDF can no longer be rendered correctly. So it doesn't make sense to work with content streams. You should look into OptionalContentGroups as they are designed to work as layers. Andrew.

ExchangeViews Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 13 Mar 12 Status: Offline Points: 38	Post Options Post Reply Quote ExchangeViews Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jun 12 at 1:53PM
	I have a pdf file which has a watermark on it. When i use ContentStreamCount, it shows 2 as count. Now i use following code: QP.SelectContentStream(2); QP.DeleteContentStream; QP.SaveToFile('d:\new.pdf'); This new pdf is now watermark free. The only problem is that i want to preview both ContentStream to select an appropriate one to delete.

AndrewC Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 08 Dec 10 Location: Geelong, Aust Status: Offline Points: 841	Post Options Post Reply Quote AndrewC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Jun 12 at 8:54AM
	Your approach may work on certain PDF files but it will not work on most PDF files. There is no easy way. You could delete the ContentStream, SaveToFile and then RenderPageToFile - Another option may be to copy the ContentStream to a string, replace it with a space character, call RenderPageToFile and then replace the ContentStream contents with the string you saved.