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General document methods
Abort
Aborted
AddImageFromBitmapHandle
AddImageFromBuffer
AddImageFromFile
AddImageFromFilename
AddImageFromMemory
AddImageWithColorMask
AddImageWithMask
AddTTFFontFromFile
AddTTFFontFromFile2
AddType1FontFromFile
AutoCreateURL
AutoLaunch
BeginDoc
BinaryImage
Compression
CreateWaterMark
CurrentWaterMarkIndex
DocumentInfo_Author
DocumentInfo_CreationDate
DocumentInfo_Creator
DocumentInfo_Keywords
DocumentInfo_Producer
DocumentInfo_Subject
DocumentInfo_Title
EndDoc
FileName
FlipImage
FontEmbedStyle
GenerateInMemoryFile
GetCurrentPageIndex
GetImageCount
GetImageHeight
GetImageResolution
GetImageWidth
GetUsedDC
GetUsedDCResolution
GlyphsToUnicodeStr
HDC
InitialZoom
InitialZoom2
JPEGQuality
LastError
LoadICCProfile
LogActionsAndErrors
LogTextOperation
MakeImageGrayScale
MakeImageNegative
MemoryFileSize
MetafileImagesCompressionType
MetafileImagesJpegCompression
NewPage
NonEmbeddedFonts
NonEmbeddedFonts_Add
NotEmbedAnyFonts
OnePass
OutputByteStream
OwnerPassword
PageCount
PageHeight
PageLayout
PageMode
PageNumber
PageWidth
PlaceImageToCurrentPage
PlayEMF
PrinterForVirtualDC
Printing
ProducePDFA
ProtectionEnabled
ProtectionKeyLength
ProtectionOptions_coAssembly
ProtectionOptions_coCopyInformation
ProtectionOptions_coExtractInfo
ProtectionOptions_coFillAnnotation
ProtectionOptions_coModifyAnnotation
ProtectionOptions_coModifyStructure
ProtectionOptions_coPrint
ProtectionOptions_coPrintHigh
Resolution
SetCurrentPage
SetPDFAOutputIntent
SetPDFXOutputIntent
StartEngine
SwitchedToWatermark
UseCurrentDocumentResolutionForNextPages
UserPassword
UseScreenDC
Version
ViewerPreferences_vpCenterWindow
ViewerPreferences_vpFitWindow
ViewerPreferences_vpHideMenuBar
ViewerPreferences_vpHideToolBar
ViewerPreferences_vpHideWindowUI
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Inserts a masked image from a file into a PDF document and returns the index of the image.

Syntax

LONG AddImageWithColorMask (
BSTR fileName,
OLE_COLOR colorMask
)
Parameters
fileName
Path to the image file.

colorMask
Color which marks points that need to be transparent.

Return value
New image index. If there is more then one image in a file then method returns index of a last added image.

Remarks

colorMask parameter is a double word (4 bytes) value 0x00BBGGRR. The low-order byte contains a value for the relative intensity of red; the second byte contains a value for green; and the third byte contains a value for blue. The high-order byte must be zero.

The return value is an image identifier in document's images collection and can be used in FlipImage, GetImageHeight, GetImageResolution, GetImageWidth, MakeImageGrayScale, MakeImageNegative, PlaceImageToCurrentPage, PDFPAGE_ShowImage.

Analogue in new interface: IPDFDocument4::AddImageWithColorMask.

Example

How to load image with color mask

Delphi
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{ PDF object is supposed to be created }
PDF.BeginDoc;
clr := 255; { 255=x0000FF - red color }
j := PDF.AddImageWithColorMask('picture.gif', clr);
PDF.PDFPAGE_ShowImage(j, 0, 0, 122, 89, 0);
PDF.EndDoc;
C/C++
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// PDF object is supposed to be created
PDF->BeginDoc();
COLORREF clr = RGB(0xFF, 0, 0); // red color
LONG j = PDF->AddImageWithColorMask("picture.gif", clr);
PDF->PDFPAGE_ShowImage(j, 0, 0, 122, 89, 0);
PDF->EndDoc();
C#
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// PDF object is supposed to be created
PDF.BeginDoc();
int clr = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.ToWin32(Color.Red);
long j = PDF.AddImageWithColorMask("picture.gif", clr);
PDF.PDFPAGE_ShowImage(j, 0, 0, 122, 89, 0);
PDF.EndDoc();
Visual Basic
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' PDF object is supposed to be created
PDF.BeginDoc
clr = 255 '255=0x0000FF - red color
j = PDF.AddImageWithColorMask("picture.gif", clr)
PDF.PDFPAGE_ShowImage j, 0, 0, 122, 89, 0
PDF.EndDoc

See Also

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