Overlay PDF (Byte Array) onto Certain Pages of an ActiveReport

Overlay PDF (Byte Array) onto Certain Pages of an ActiveReport

Posted by: rkuehn on 4 November 2021, 5:57 pm EST

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  rkuehn

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  Posted 4 November 2021, 5:57 pm EST

  I’m working in a custom program that uses AR6. I’m using C# in VS 2019 on Windows 10 Pro and targeting .NET Framework 4.7.2 in my solution. My report designers are based on classes that are ultimately based on a SectionReport object.

  I have a PDF sent to me as a byte array from an outside source that I want to overlay onto certain pages of an ActiveReport I built. I thought the process would be as simple as:

  		Stream 
  			reportStream = new MemoryStream(pdfByteArray);
  		Document 
  			reportDoc = new Document();
  
  		reportDoc.Load(reportStream);
  
  		for (int i = locationinAR; i < pageCount; i++)
  			pages[i].Overlay(reportDoc.Pages[i]);
  

  But I’m getting the error “Invalid file format, the guids do not match” on the “reportDoc.Load(reportStream);” line, so I expect I’m missing something obvious. How should I code this?

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  Posted 4 November 2021, 6:23 pm EST

  And just to be clear, I know that the byte array is a valid PDF. I saved it to disk and opened it to verify.

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  mohitg

  

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  Posted 8 November 2021, 1:05 am EST

  Hello,

  AR6 is a legacy product now. We do not support it. I suggest you to upgrade to the latest version.

  Also, you cannot load the PDF document in the SectionDocument.

  Thanks,
  
  Mohit