InterpolateImages

PdfSaveOptions.InterpolateImages property

A flag indicating whether image interpolation shall be performed by a conforming reader. When false is specified, the flag is not written to the output document and the default behaviour of reader is used instead.

public bool InterpolateImages { get; set; }

Remarks

When the resolution of a source image is significantly lower than that of the output device, each source sample covers many device pixels. As a result, images can appear jaggy or blocky. These visual artifacts can be reduced by applying an image interpolation algorithm during rendering. Instead of painting all pixels covered by a source sample with the same color, image interpolation attempts to produce a smooth transition between adjacent sample values.

A conforming Reader may choose to not implement this feature of PDF, or may use any specific implementation of interpolation that it wishes.

The default value is false.

Interpolation flag is prohibited by PDF/A compliance. false value will be used automatically when saving to PDF/A.

Examples

Shows how to perform interpolation on images while saving a document to PDF.

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

builder.InsertImage(ImageDir + "Transparent background logo.png");

// Create a "PdfSaveOptions" object that we can pass to the document's "Save" method
// to modify how that method converts the document to .PDF.
PdfSaveOptions saveOptions = new PdfSaveOptions();
// Set the "InterpolateImages" property to "true" to get the reader that opens this document to interpolate images.
// Their resolution should be lower than that of the device that is displaying the document.
// Set the "InterpolateImages" property to "false" to make it so that the reader does not apply any interpolation.
saveOptions.InterpolateImages = interpolateImages;

// When we open this document with a reader such as Adobe Acrobat, we will need to zoom in on the image
// to see the interpolation effect if we saved the document with it enabled.
doc.Save(ArtifactsDir + "PdfSaveOptions.InterpolateImages.pdf", saveOptions);

See Also

PdfSaveOptions.ImageCompression PdfSaveOptions.JpegQuality