How to create a new pdf and make pdfs with pdfwriter node?

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hi

cant figure out a way to make a new pdf

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Hi,

Did you check the node’s help patch, or did you look for PDF in the Help Browser?

Doing that should get you started with this node.

Cheers!

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There is only one help patch in the help browser,

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but it doesnt help me create a new pdf file at the root directory of my application everytime I export with this pdfwriter.

Here in this pdf writer, you need to give an already existing pdf file for it to write data into it, but i need to create an all new pdf at the time of exporting

i tried downloading pdfsharp a dotnet library for processing pdfs, but dont know how it works

thanks for the quick reply :-)

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Which PDFWriter node does that? Can you post a patch with your current setup rather than posting screenshots, and explain exactly what you’re trying to achieve?

The Skia PDFWriter does not take an existing PDF as input, it takes a Skia Layer so you’re able to put whatever you can draw with Skia and export it to a PDF.

Did you press F1 with the node selected?

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hey i tried naming the pdf as some xyz.pdf and it does the work, i need to change and rewrite the filename to timestamp, This patch needs brushing up