ReportingCloud is a Web API powered reporting platform to create MS Word compatible reports in the cloud using a REST web service.

The Web API also supports rendering document pages to a variety of image formats such as PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF with the highest available accuracy and quality.

Besides powerful reporting and conversion processes, the API method /v1/templates/thumbnails creates and returns images of document pages. It can be used for templates and resulting documents. If a document has been created using /v1/document/merge or /v1/document/convert, you can upload the document to your template storage in order to create the images using /v1/templates/thumbnails.

The following query parameters are available to specify the zoom factor, the format and to define the page range the images should be created for:

The following sample code shows how to create images using the ReportingCloud .NET wrapper:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;
using TXTextControl.ReportingCloud;

class RCSamples
{
    public static void GetTemplateThumbnails(string templateName)
    {
        ReportingCloud rc = new ReportingCloud(
            "username",
            "password",
            new Uri("https://api.reporting.cloud"));

        try
        {
            List<Image> lstThumbnails = rc.GetTemplateThumbnails(
                templateName, 20, 1, 0, ImageFormat.PNG);

            foreach (Image img in lstThumbnails)
            {
                string sImageFilename = Guid.NewGuid().ToString() + ".jpg";
                img.Save(sImageFilename, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg);

                Console.WriteLine("Image saved to: " + sImageFilename);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("An error occurred: " + e.Message);
        }
    }
}

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