Create Transparent Image of Excel Worksheet

Sometimes, you need to generate the image of your worksheet as a transparent image. You want to apply transparency to all cells which have no fill colors. Aspose.Cells provides the ImageOrPrintOptions.Transparent property to apply transparency to the worksheet image. When this property is false, then cells with no fill colors are drawn with white color and when it is true, cells with no fill colors are drawn transparent.

In the following worksheet image, transparency has not been applied. The cells with no fill colors are drawn white.

Output without transparency: the cell background is white

While, in the following worksheet image, transparency has been applied. The cells with no fill colors are transparent.

Output with transparency enabled

The following sample code generates a transparent image from an Excel worksheet.