Converting Worksheet to Image using ImageOrPrint Options

Saving Worksheets to Images - Different Approaches

Sometimes, you might require presenting your worksheets as a pictorial representation. You need to present the worksheet images in your applications or web pages. You might need to insert the images into a Word document, a PDF file, a PowerPoint presentation, or use them in some other scenario. Simply, you want a worksheet rendered as an image so that you can use it elsewhere. Aspose.Cells for Python via .NET supports converting worksheets in Excel files to images. Also, Aspose.Cells for Python via .NET supports setting different options like image format, resolution (both vertical and horizontal), image quality, and other image and print options.

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This article shows how to create a console application in Visual Studio .NET, perform the conversion of a worksheet to image using different image and print options with a few simple lines of code using Aspose.Cells for Python via .NET API.

You need to import the aspose.cells.rendering namespace to your program/project. It has several valuable classes, for example, SheetRender, ImageOrPrintOptions, WorkbookRender etc.

The SheetRender class represents a worksheet to render images for. It has an overloaded to_image method that can directly convert a worksheet to image file(s) specified with your desired attributes or options. It can return a System.Drawing.Bitmap object, and you can save an image file to disk/stream. There are several image formats supported, e.g., BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, EMF, and so on.

Using Aspose.Cells to Convert Worksheet to Image using ImageOrPrint options

Creating a template workbook in Microsoft Excel

I created a new workbook in MS Excel and added some data to the first worksheet. Now, I will convert the template file’s worksheet “Sheet1” to an image file “SheetImage.tiff” and apply different image options such as horizontal and vertical resolutions, TIFF compression, etc.

Convert Worksheet to an Image file

Image conversion using WorkbookRender

A TIFF image can contain more than one frame. You can save the whole workbook to a single TIFF image with multiple frames or pages:

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