Working with Portfolio in PDF

How to Create a PDF Portfolio

Aspose.PDF allows creating PDF Portfolio documents using the Document class. Add a file into a Document.Collection object after getting it with the FileSpecification class. When the files have been added, use the Document class’ Save method to save the portfolio document.

The following example uses a Microsoft Excel File, a Word document and an image file to create a PDF Portfolio.

The code below results in the following portfolio.

The following code snippet also work with Aspose.PDF.Drawing library.

A PDF Portfolio created with Aspose.PDF

// The path to the documents directory.
string dataDir = RunExamples.GetDataDir_AsposePdf_TechnicalArticles();

// Instantiate Document Object
Document document = new Document();

// Instantiate document Collection object
document.Collection = new Collection();

// Get Files to add to Portfolio
FileSpecification excel = new FileSpecification(dataDir + "HelloWorld.xlsx");
FileSpecification word = new FileSpecification(dataDir + "HelloWorld.docx");
FileSpecification image = new FileSpecification(dataDir + "aspose-logo.jpg");

// Provide description of the files
excel.Description = "Excel File";
word.Description = "Word File";
image.Description = "Image File";

// Add files to document collection
document.Collection.Add(excel);
document.Collection.Add(word);
document.Collection.Add(image);

// Save Portfolio document
document.Save(dataDir + "CreatePDFPortfolio_out.pdf");

Extract files from PDF Portfolio

PDF Portfolios allow you to bring together content from a variety of sources (for example, PDF, Word, Excel, JPEG files) into one unified container. The original files retain their individual identities but are assembled into a PDF Portfolio file. Users can open, read, edit, and format each component file independently of the other component files.

Aspose.PDF allows the creation of PDF Portfolio documents using Document class. It also offers the capability to extract files from PDF portfolio.

The following code snippet shows you the steps to extract files from PDF portfolio.

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-pdf/Aspose.PDF-for-.NET
// The path to the documents directory.
string dataDir = RunExamples.GetDataDir_AsposePdf_TechnicalArticles();

// Load source PDF Portfolio
Document document = new Document(dataDir + "PDFPortfolio.pdf");
// Get collection of embedded files
EmbeddedFileCollection embeddedFiles = document.EmbeddedFiles;
// Iterate through individual file of Portfolio
foreach (FileSpecification fileSpecification in embeddedFiles)
{
    // Get the attachment and write to file or stream
    byte[] fileContent = new byte[fileSpecification.Contents.Length];
    fileSpecification.Contents.Read(fileContent, 0, fileContent.Length);
    string filename = Path.GetFileName(fileSpecification.Name);
    // Save the extracted file to some location
    using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(dataDir + "_out" + filename, FileMode.Create))
    {
        fileStream.Write(fileContent, 0, fileContent.Length);
    }
}

Remove Files from PDF Portfolio

In order to delete/remove files from PDF portfolio, try using the following code lines.

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-pdf/Aspose.PDF-for-.NET
// The path to the documents directory.
string dataDir = RunExamples.GetDataDir_AsposePdf_TechnicalArticles();

// Load source PDF Portfolio
Document document = new Document(dataDir + "PDFPortfolio.pdf");
document.Collection.Delete();
document.Save(dataDir + "No_PortFolio_out.pdf");