PdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument(Stream) Method

Appends a PDF document located at the specified file stream to the end of the current document starting from the new page.

Namespace: DevExpress.Pdf

Assembly: DevExpress.Docs.v19.1.dll

Declaration

C#

public void AppendDocument(
    Stream stream
)

VB.NET

Public Sub AppendDocument(
    stream As Stream
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
stream	Stream	A Stream value, specifying the location of the appended document.

Remarks

All additional content (interactive forms, bookmarks,hyperlinks, file attachments, etc.) of the appended document is copied to the resulting file.

This example illustrates how to use the PDF Document API component to merge pages of two separate PDF documents into a single PDF document.

Note

A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/how-to-merge-documents-into-a-single-pdf-t114298

Program.cs

using DevExpress.Pdf;

namespace PdfMergeExample {

    class Program {
        static void Main(string[] args) {

            using (PdfDocumentProcessor pdfDocumentProcessor = new PdfDocumentProcessor()) {
                pdfDocumentProcessor.CreateEmptyDocument("..\\..\\docs\\Merged.pdf");
                pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\\..\\docs\\TextMerge1.pdf");
                pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\\..\\docs\\TextMerge2.pdf");             
            }
        }
    }
}

Program.vb

Imports DevExpress.Pdf

Namespace PdfMergeExample

    Friend Class Program
        Shared Sub Main(ByVal args() As String)

            Using pdfDocumentProcessor As New PdfDocumentProcessor()
                pdfDocumentProcessor.CreateEmptyDocument("..\..\docs\Merged.pdf")
                pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\..\docs\TextMerge1.pdf")
                pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\..\docs\TextMerge2.pdf")
            End Using
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace