PdfAnnotationFacade Class

Exposes a set of methods used to organize annotations without access to its inner structure.

Namespace: DevExpress.Pdf

Assembly: DevExpress.Pdf.v21.1.Core.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Pdf.Core

Declaration

C#

public class PdfAnnotationFacade

VB.NET

Public Class PdfAnnotationFacade

Remarks

Use the PdfPageFacade.Annotations property to retrieve a list of annotation facade objects. Utilize the PdfAnnotationFacade.Flatten() method to flatten a specific annotation.

The code sample below flattens the first annotation on the page:

C#

using (PdfDocumentProcessor processor = new PdfDocumentProcessor())
{
  // Load a document:
  processor.LoadDocument("..\\..\\Document.pdf");

  // Flatten the first annotation:
  var annotations = processor.DocumentFacade.Pages[0].Annotations;
  annotations[0].Flatten();

  // Save the result:
  processor.SaveDocument("..\\..\\Result.pdf");
}

VB.NET

Using processor As New PdfDocumentProcessor()
  ' Load a document:
  processor.LoadDocument("..\..\Document.pdf")

  ' Flatten the first annotation:
  Dim annotations = processor.DocumentFacade.Pages(0).Annotations
  annotations(0).Flatten()

  ' Save the result:
  processor.SaveDocument("..\..\Result.pdf")
End Using

Inheritance

Object

PdfAnnotationFacade