I've seen a ton of examples on the stack about converting a base64 string and/or URI but can't seem to get it to render the base64. I've tried using a uri and a string. Using the code below, i am able to render a pdf but when i try to open the pdf it says an error has occurred. Nothing is rendered. Any ideas?
string base64BinaryStr = "JVBERi0xLjQKJeLjz9MKMSAwIG9iago8PC9UeXBlIC9YT2JqZWN0IC9T";
using (FileStream stream = System.IO.File.Create(#"c:\Users\signature.pdf"))
{
byte[] byteArray = Convert.FromBase64String(base64BinaryStr);
stream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
}
**Here's a screenshot of what the file does when i try to open it:
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I get a HttpPostedFile that is being uploaded (supposedly a pdf), and I have to use it's stream to initialize it in PdfSharp.
The problem is that, altough HttpPostedFile SaveAs() method saves a valid pdf, saving it's InputStream doesn't create a valid pdf, so when I use the InputStream on PdfSharp to read the pdf it throws an exception with "Invalid Pdf", and saving the InputStream byte[]
which I tried to get like this:
public byte[] GetBytesFromStream(System.IO.Stream uploadedFile)
{
int length = Convert.ToInt32(uploadedFile.Length); //Length: 103050706
string str = "";
byte[] input = new byte[length];
// Initialize the stream.
System.IO.Stream MyStream = uploadedFile;
// Read the file into the byte array.
MyStream.Read(input, 0, length);
return input;
}
Calling the method like this:
byte[] fileBytes = GetBytesFromStream(uploadedFile.InputStream);
But creating a file from those bytes creates an invalid pdf too...
I created the file from bytes like this...
System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes("Foo.pdf", fileBytes);
I have 2 questions about this then:
1st - Why is the stream I receive from the InputStream invalid, and the SaveAs Works.
2nd - How could I get the correct stream from the inputStream or the HttpPostedFile, without saving the file to disk and then reading it.
Noticed that this question wasn't answered (since Evk's comment was the solution) and I couldn't accept any answer.
So I'm making this one just to not leave this question unanswered.
tl;dr;
The solution as per Evk's comment was the position of the stream, it was being read beforehand and setting the position to 0 before trying to create the pdf was enough to fix the problem.
Here is my sample code:
CodeSnippet 1: This code executes in my file repository server and returns the file as encoded string using the WCF Service:
byte[] fileBytes = new byte[0];
using (FileStream stream = System.IO.File.OpenRead(#"D:\PDFFiles\Sample1.pdf"))
{
fileBytes = new byte[stream.Length];
stream.Read(fileBytes, 0, fileBytes.Length);
stream.Close();
}
string retVal = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(fileBytes); // fileBytes size is 209050
Code Snippet 2:
Client box, which demanded the PDF file, receives the encoded string and converts to PDF and save to local.
byte[] encodedBytes = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(retVal); /// GETTING corrupted here
string pdfPath = #"C:\DemoPDF\Sample2.pdf";
using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(pdfPath, FileMode.Create)) //encodedBytes is 327279
{
fileStream.Write(encodedBytes, 0, encodedBytes.Length);
fileStream.Close();
}
Above code working absolutely fine Framework 4.5 , 4.6.1
When I use the same code in Asp.Net Core 2.0, it fails to convert to Byte Array properly. I am not getting any runtime error but, the final PDF is not able to open after it is created. Throws error as pdf file is corrupted.
I tried with Encoding.Unicode and Encoding.UTF-8 also. But getting same error for final PDF.
Also, I have noticed that when I use Encoding.Unicode, atleast the Original Byte Array and Result byte array size are same. But other encoding types are mismatching with bytes size also.
So, the question is, System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes broken in .NET Core 2.0 ?
I have edited my question for better understanding.
Sample1.pdf exists on a different server and communicate using WCF to transmit the data to Client which stores the file encoded stream and converts as Sample2.pdf
Hopefully my question makes some sense now.
1: the number of times you should ever use Encoding.Default is essentially zero; there may be a hypothetical case, but if there is one: it is elusive
2: PDF files are not text, so trying to use an Encoding on them is just... wrong; you aren't "GETTING corrupted here" - it just isn't text.
You may wish to see Extracting text from PDFs in C# or Reading text from PDF in .NET
If you simply wish to copy the content without parsing it: File.Copy or Stream.CopyTo are good options.
I am uploading an .mp3 file via FTP code using C#, the file is uploaded successfully on server but when i bind to a simple audio control or directly view in browser it does not work as expected, whereas when i upload manually on the server it works perfectly.
Code:
var inputStream = FileUpload1.PostedFile.InputStream;
byte[] fileBytes = new byte[inputStream.Length];
inputStream.Read(fileBytes, 0, fileBytes.Length);
Note: When i view the file in Firefox it shows MIME type is not supported.
Thanks!
You're reading the file as a string then using UTF8 encoding to turn it into bytes. If you do that, and the file contains any binary sequence that doesn't code to a valid UTF8 value, parts of the data stream will simply get discarded.
Instead, read it directly as bytes. Don't bother with the StreamReader. Call the Read() method on the underlying stream. Example:
var inputStream = FileUpload1.PostedFile.InputStream
byte[] fileBytes = new byte[inputStream.Length];
inputStream.Read(fileBytes, 0, fileStream.Length);
I am using a basic telerik export document to pdf function. this works great to export the page directly to the user. I then pass this to a controller as a string via datauri.
how can I convert it back to a file so that I can attach it to an email?
imageData: "data:application/pdf;base64,JVBERi0xLjQKJcLB2s/OCgoxIDAg...
I found a way to do this. replace a bit of the header, convert to byes, make a new stream, attach stream to email.
imageData = imageData.Replace("data:application/pdf;base64,", "");
byte[] bytes = Convert.FromBase64String(imageData);
Stream stream = new MemoryStream(bytes);
email.Attachments.AddFileAttachment("SALOR.pdf",stream);
I'm reading a PDF file with C#, but the characters are coming from another encoding, and returning different characters than those which I expected from when I view the file in a PDF viewer.
I thought a UTF-8 encoding would be correct.
What am I doing wrong?
string file = #"c:\document.pdf";
Stream stream = File.Open(file, FileMode.Open);
BinaryReader binaryReady = new BinaryReader(stream);
byte[] buffer = binaryReady.ReadBytes(Convert.ToInt32(stream.Length));
var encoder = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer);
PDF is a very complex multi-part file, it is not just UTF8 text.
If you want to read a PDF file, you must read over the full PDF File Format Documentation and fully implement the large and complex details of how the file format works.