About the Export active view Sample
[C#]
ExportActiveViewVB_Net.cs
[Visual Basic .NET]
ExportActiveViewVB_Net.vb
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Imports System.Drawing Imports ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto Imports ESRI.ArcGIS.Display Imports ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem Imports ESRI.ArcGIS.Geometry Imports ESRI.ArcGIS.Output Imports System.Windows.Forms Public Class ExportActiveViewVB_Net Inherits ESRI.ArcGIS.Desktop.AddIns.Button ' gdi and win32 functions Private Declare Auto Function SystemParametersInfo Lib "user32" (ByVal uiAction As UInteger, ByVal uiParam As UInteger, ByRef pvParam As UInteger, ByVal fWinIni As UInteger) As Boolean Public Const SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHING = 74 Public Const SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING = 75 Public Const SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE = &H1 Public Sub New() End Sub Protected Overrides Sub OnClick() 'The OnClick Method calls ExportActiveViewParameterized with some arguments. The first argument is a string 'which represents which type of output format to create. The second is a number which represents resolution 'in dpi. The third is the resample ratio, valid values are integers between 1(best) and 5(fastest). Lastly, 'the last argument is a boolean which controls whether the output is clipped to graphics extent (layout only). ExportActiveViewParameterized("JPEG", 300, 1, False) End Sub Protected Overrides Sub OnUpdate() Enabled = My.ArcMap.Application IsNot Nothing End Sub Public Sub ExportActiveViewParameterized(ByVal ExportFormat As String, ByVal iOutputResolution As Long, ByVal lResampleRatio As Long, ByVal bClipToGraphicsExtent As Boolean) 'Export the active view using the specified parameters Dim docActiveView As IActiveView Dim docExport As IExport Dim docPrintAndExport As IPrintAndExport Dim RasterSettings As IOutputRasterSettings Dim sNameRoot As String Dim sOutputDir As String Dim bReenable As Boolean If (GetFontSmoothing()) Then bReenable = True DisableFontSmoothing() If (GetFontSmoothing()) Then MsgBox("Cannot Disable Font Smoothing. Exiting.") Return End If End If docActiveView = My.ArcMap.Document.ActiveView ' Create an Export* object and cast the docExport interface pointer onto it. ' To export to any format, we simply create the desired Class here Select Case ExportFormat Case "PDF" docExport = New ExportPDF Case "EMF" docExport = New ExportEMF Case "BMP" docExport = New ExportBMP Case "EPS" docExport = New ExportPS Case "SVG" docExport = New ExportSVG Case "GIF" docExport = New ExportGIF Case "TIF" docExport = New ExportTIFF Case "JPEG" docExport = New ExportJPEG Case "PNG" docExport = New ExportPNG Case "AI" docExport = New ExportAI Case Else MessageBox.Show("Unrecognized output format, defaulting to EMF") ExportFormat = "EMF" docExport = New ExportEMF End Select docPrintAndExport = New PrintAndExport ' Output Image Quality of the export. The value here will only be used if the export ' object is a format that allows setting of Output Image Quality, i.e. a vector exporter. ' The value assigned to ResampleRatio should be in the range 1 to 5. ' 1 corresponds to "Best", 5 corresponds to "Fast" If TypeOf docExport Is IOutputRasterSettings Then ' for vector formats, assign a ResampleRatio to control drawing of raster layers at export time RasterSettings = docExport RasterSettings.ResampleRatio = lResampleRatio ' NOTE: for raster formats output quality of the DISPLAY is set to 1 for image export ' formats by default which is what should be used End If 'assign the output path and filename. We can use the Filter property of the export object to ' automatically assign the proper extension to the file. sOutputDir = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal) + "\" sNameRoot = "VBExportActiveViewSampleOutput" docExport.ExportFileName = sOutputDir & sNameRoot & "." & Right(Split(docExport.Filter, "|")(1), _ Len(Split(docExport.Filter, "|")(1)) - 2) docPrintAndExport.Export(docActiveView, docExport, iOutputResolution, bClipToGraphicsExtent, Nothing) MessageBox.Show("Finished Exporting " & sOutputDir & sNameRoot & "." & Right(Split(docExport.Filter, "|")(1), _ Len(Split(docExport.Filter, "|")(1)) - 2) & ".", "Export Active View Sample") 'cleanup for the exporter docExport.Cleanup() If (bReenable) Then EnableFontSmoothing() bReenable = False End If End Sub Function GetFontSmoothing() As Boolean Dim iResults As Boolean Dim pv As Integer 'get font smoothing value and return true if font smoothing is turned on. iResults = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHING, 0, pv, 0) If pv > 0 Then GetFontSmoothing = True Else GetFontSmoothing = False End If End Function Sub EnableFontSmoothing() Dim iResults As Boolean Dim pv As Integer ' Call systemparametersinfo to turn on fontsmoothing iResults = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING, 1, pv, SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE) End Sub Sub DisableFontSmoothing() Dim iResults As Boolean Dim pv As Integer ' Call systemparametersinfo to turn off font smoothing iResults = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING, 0, pv, SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE) End Sub End Class