How to place a PDF file inside the Excel cell
A PDF document can be placed inside an Excel cell using the OLE objects concept available in Syncfusion XlsIO. The concept of OLE helps to link or embed documents.
The following code snippet explains how to place a PDF document in an Excel cell.
C#
using (ExcelEngine excelEngine = new ExcelEngine())
{
IApplication application = excelEngine.Excel;
application.DefaultVersion = ExcelVersion.Excel2016;
IWorkbook workbook = application.Workbooks.Create(1);
IWorksheet sheet = workbook.Worksheets[0];
Image image = Image.FromFile("../../Data/Image.png");
//Select the object, image for the display icon and the type of the OLEObject to insert
IOleObject ole = sheet.OleObjects.Add("../../Data/ExcelToPDF.pdf", image, OleLinkType.Embed);
workbook.SaveAs("LinkedObjects.xlsx");
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("LinkedObjects.xlsx");
}
VB.NET
Using excelEngine As ExcelEngine = New ExcelEngine
Dim application As IApplication = excelEngine.Excel
application.DefaultVersion = ExcelVersion.Excel2016
Dim workbook As IWorkbook = application.Workbooks.Create(1)
Dim sheet As IWorksheet = workbook.Worksheets(0)
Dim image As Image = Image.FromFile("../../Data/Image.png")
'Select the object, image for the display icon and the type of the OLEObject to insert
Dim ole As IOleObject = sheet.OleObjects.Add("../../Data/ExcelToPDF.pdf", image, OleLinkType.Embed)
workbook.SaveAs("LinkedObjects.xlsx")
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("LinkedObjects.xlsx")
End Using
A complete working C# sample can be downloaded from PDFInExcelCell.zip
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