Photo Album Maker Licensing Plugin

         The Photo Album Maker Licensing Plugin offers a convenient way to combine your images or photos into handy multi-page albums. You can utilize a variety of image files in different formats from the list of supported image formats to seamlessly merge them and create a single multi-page file such as a PDF or TIFF format. Before creating a photo album, ensure you acquire a Metered license by providing your public key and private password using the `SetMeteredKey()` method. In the C# code example below, we create a new `TiffImage` object and add existing images using the AddFrame() method. If you prefer to create a PDF file containing your original images on separate pages, you can easily utilize the Image.Create() constructor with an array of images passed as a parameter and save the output to the file with `PdfOptions`. Please be aware that utilizing unlicensed features of the Aspose.Imaging graphic library will result in a watermark appearing on the output image.

using Aspose.Imaging;
using Aspose.Imaging.FileFormats.Emf;
using Aspose.Imaging.FileFormats.Png;
using Aspose.Imaging.FileFormats.Tiff;
using Aspose.Imaging.FileFormats.Tiff.Enums;
using Aspose.Imaging.ImageOptions;
using Aspose.Imaging.Sources;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;

string templatesFolder = @"c:\Users\USER\Downloads\templates\";
string dataDir = templatesFolder;

Run5();

//------------------------------------------------------------------
// Image album create plug-in example
//------------------------------------------------------------------
void Run5()
{
	// Valid image album plug-in license use example
	Metered license = new Metered();

	// Only  metered plug-in license is supported
	license.SetMeteredKey("<your public key>", "<your private key>");

	string OutputDirectory = templatesFolder;
    if (!Directory.Exists(OutputDirectory))
    {
        Directory.CreateDirectory(OutputDirectory);
    }

    var images = new List<Image>();

    string[] imagePaths = new string[] { "template.png", "template.jpg", "template.bmp" };

    foreach (var fileName in imagePaths)
    {
        var image = Image.Load(Path.Combine(templatesFolder,fileName));

        images.Add(image);
    }

    try
    {
        var outputPath = Path.Combine(templatesFolder, "licensed_image_album.pdf");
        MakeAlbum(images, new PdfOptions(), outputPath);

        File.Delete(outputPath);

        // Unlicensed use
        outputPath = Path.Combine(templatesFolder, "trial_image_album.tiff");
        MakeTiffAlbum(images, new TiffOptions(TiffExpectedFormat.TiffDeflateRgba), outputPath);

        File.Delete(outputPath);
    }
    finally
    {
        images.ForEach(image => image.Dispose());
    }
}

void MakeTiffAlbum(List<Image> images, TiffOptions rgbOptions, string outputPath)
{
    using var tiffImage = new TiffImage(Array.Empty<TiffFrame>());

    foreach (var image in images.Where(image => image is RasterImage))
    {
        tiffImage.AddFrame(new TiffFrame(image as RasterImage, rgbOptions));
        tiffImage.Frames[tiffImage.Frames.Length - 1].Grayscale();
    }

    tiffImage.ActiveFrame = tiffImage.Frames[0];

    tiffImage.Save(outputPath, rgbOptions);
}

void MakeAlbum(List<Image> images, ImageOptionsBase imageOptions, string outputPath)
{
    using (var image = Image.Create(images.ToArray()))
    {
        image.Save(outputPath, imageOptions);
    }
}

enum MergeDirection
{
    Horizontal = 0,
    Vertical = 1
}

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