How to save PDF document with other format

Signature class supports saving of Pdf signed documents to different formats. Each of document type has list of compatible saving type. These values are listed in enumΒ PdfSaveFileFormat.

Here are the steps to save signed Pdf document to different output type with GroupDocs.Signature:

  • Create new instance ofΒ SignatureΒ Β class and pass source document path or stream as a constructor parameter.
  • Instantiate required signature options.
  • Instantiate theΒ PdfSaveOptionsΒ object according to your requirements and specifyΒ FileFormatΒ as one of predefined values fromΒ PdfSaveFileFormat.
  • CallΒ SignΒ method ofΒ Signature class instance and pass signatureoptions andΒ PdfSaveOptionsΒ objectΒ to it.

Following example demonstrates how to save signed PDF document with different output type

using (Signature signature = new Signature("sample.pdf"))
{
    // create QRCode option with predefined QRCode text
    QrCodeSignOptions signOptions = new QrCodeSignOptions("JohnSmith")
    {
        EncodeType = QRCodeTypes.QR,
        Left = 100,
        Top = 100
    };
    PdfSaveOptions pdfSaveOptions = new PdfSaveOptions()
    {
        FileFormat = PdfSaveFileFormat.DocX,
        OverwriteExistingFiles = true
    };
    // sign document to file
    signature.Sign("SignedPdf.docx", signOptions, pdfSaveOptions);
}

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GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in ourΒ GitHub examples:

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