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Error exporting to PDF and Visio
Mar 24th, 2011 at 5:06pm
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When I try to export... PNG works, XML works, but Visio and PDF fail. In all cases I am using a Windows SaveFileDialog, and the same diagram, but it isn't a single diagram that fails, it seems like all of them.

The PDF Export gives this:
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System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'MindFusion.Pdf.Globals' threw an exception. ---> System.ArgumentException: The path is not of a legal form.
   at System.IO.Path.NormalizePathFast(String path, Boolean fullCheck)
   at System.IO.Path.NormalizePath(String path, Boolean fullCheck)
   at System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(String path)
   at MindFusion.Pdf.Globals..cctor()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at MindFusion.Pdf.PdfGraphics..ctor(Image img, String FilePath, GraphicsUnit gu, RectangleF layoutRect)
   at MindFusion.Pdf.PdfGraphics..ctor(RectangleF rect, String FilePath, GraphicsUnit gu)
   at MindFusion.Diagramming.Wpf.Export.PdfExporter.x12cb12b5d2cad53d(String xc15ea0179eb95a0e, Rect x26545669838eb36e)
   at MindFusion.Diagramming.Wpf.Export.PdfExporter.Export(Diagram diagram, String filePath) 



I'm using a windows SaveFileDialog to get the path... so I know the path is valid. Even if I try to save directly to "C:\new.pdf", it fails claiming the path is not of a legal form.

The Visio Export gives this error:
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System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
   at MindFusion.Diagramming.Wpf.Export.VisioExporter.Export(Diagram diagram, String vdxPathName) 



I have no idea what index it claims is outside the bounds.
  
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Re: Error exporting to PDF and Visio
Reply #1 - Mar 24th, 2011 at 6:23pm
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What value are you getting if you call Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location from your app before exporting?
  
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Re: Error exporting to PDF and Visio
Reply #2 - Mar 24th, 2011 at 7:12pm
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Empty String.

Our components are all loaded on the fly via byte array... we aren't going to have an Assembly location.

We also won't ever have an Application, since we don't use the Application framework.
  
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Re: Error exporting to PDF and Visio
Reply #3 - Mar 24th, 2011 at 8:18pm
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Well, both exporters look for some files at Assembly.Location. VisioExporter should work if you set its TemplatePath property, but there's nothing you can do about PdfExporter at this time if Location is empty.
  
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Re: Error exporting to PDF and Visio
Reply #4 - Mar 24th, 2011 at 9:00pm
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The PDF Viewer just builds a font cache relative to my assembly location. That doesn't really seem necessary. Can't this be changed to let me pass in a shared font cache folder or use Isolated Storage or something instead?

That said... I hacked our code to load your components from file instead of byte array and it fixed the PDF Viewer. I might be able to get a workaround, but it'd be highly undesirable.

The Visio Export apparently requires a template... I'll have to figure out how to distribute that I guess... But at least I can point at a location for it.
  
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Re: Error exporting to PDF and Visio
Reply #5 - Mar 25th, 2011 at 8:48am
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It can be changed - font caching is used only in the ASP.NET version of the control anyway. We'll change how this value is initialized for the next release.
  
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Re: Error exporting to PDF and Visio
Reply #6 - Mar 25th, 2011 at 2:44pm
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Thank you. I'll look forward to that. Smiley

Two side notes about the exports... Is there a way to export only the parts of the diagram that are... populated? It appears a large chunk of our diagrams are unused, using like the 10% in the top left corner. This makes the export mostly blank, so we in the case of PNG, and PDF we get a hugely blank image/document with a teeny tiny diagram in the top left.

The Visio export also holds the font settings from the diagram. Since ours is millimeter sized, the font size is like 2.4, which in Visio is illegibly small.

The Visio export looks fine (minus the above issues) in full Visio. But the free Visio Viewer from Microsoft loads the diagram and it the nodes overlap, the links don't connect correctly... Is that a known issue?
  
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Re: Error exporting to PDF and Visio
Reply #7 - Mar 25th, 2011 at 4:51pm
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Try calling ResizeToFitItems before exporting, and restoring diagram.Bounds after that.

Visio Viewer does not contain shape stencil definitions and can display shapes only if they specify low-level graphics inside a <geom> section under each shape element. However VisioExporter only specifies the shape's stencil name and does not generate a <geom> section, so the viewer cannot render the shapes correctly. You can still use the full Visio as a viewer - once its 30 trial uses expire it starts to work in "reduced" read-only mode while still displaying the shapes as expected.
  
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Re: Error exporting to PDF and Visio
Reply #8 - Mar 25th, 2011 at 5:33pm
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ResizeToFit works brilliantly. Thanks.

Okay, at least I have a response for Visio Viewer questions, should they arise, thank you.
  
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