Convert local image to iText.Layout.Element image xamarin forms

Question

I am having problems in Xamarin forms in android when converting an image that resides in the drawable repository of resources, but at the time of loading the image in a variable to later make the conversion to iText.Layout.Element.Image (which later this image it will go to a pdf using itext 7), they give me compatibility errors only for shitting the image in the variable, according to the documentation.

I suppose that later in the apk, when it is not executed in debug mode, these images will be available. There are some similar questions, but I have not seen any where the image starts as local

var image5 = new iText.Layout.Element.Image("logo.jpg");

using (MemoryStream memoryStream1 = new MemoryStream())
{
image5.Save(memoryStream1, ImageFormat.Png);
byte[] bytes = memoryStream1.ToArray();
}
To later process the image to incorporate it into the pdf document

ImageData imageData = ImageDataFactory.Create(bytes);

iText.Layout.Element.Image image = new iText.Layout.Element.Image(imageData);

document.Add(image);
But I get the Save() method error from System.Drawing and not how to fix it

The other code I have is:

var image20 = new Xamarin.Forms.Image { Source = "logo.PNG" };
var assembly = this.GetType().GetTypeInfo().Assembly;
byte[] imgByteArray = null;

using(var s = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("logo.PNG"))
{
if (s != null)
{
var length = s.Length;
imgByteArray = new byte[length];
s.Read(imgByteArray, 0, (int)length);

           image20.Source = ImageSource.FromStream(() => s);
  }

}

ImageData imageData9 = ImageDataFactory.Create(imgByteArray);

iText.Layout.Element.Image image9 = new iText.Layout.Element.Image(imageData9);

Answer 1

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

The correct path is Project name + folder name + file name .

For example

   var image20 = new Xamarin.Forms.Image();  
     
   Assembly assembly = this.GetType().GetTypeInfo().Assembly;  
   byte[] imgByteArray = null;  
     
   using (var s = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("FormsA.dog2.png"))  
   {  
      if (s != null)  
      {  
        var length = s.Length;  
        imgByteArray = new byte[length];  
        s.Read(imgByteArray, 0, (int)length);  
     
        MemoryStream newM = new MemoryStream(buffer);  
        image20.Source = ImageSource.FromStream(() => newM);  
       }  
   }  

Best Regards,
Cole Xia

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