PdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument(String) Method

Appends a PDF document located at the specified path 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(
    string path
)

VB.NET

Public Sub AppendDocument(
    path As String
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
path	String	A String 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

Related GitHub Examples

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C#

pdf-document-api-merge-multiple-documents/CS/PdfMergeExample/Program.cs#L14

pdfDocumentProcessor.CreateEmptyDocument("Merged.pdf");
pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\\..\\docs\\TextMerge1.pdf");
pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\\..\\docs\\TextMerge2.pdf");

VB.NET

pdf-document-api-merge-multiple-documents/VB/PdfMergeExample/Program.vb#L10

pdfDocumentProcessor.CreateEmptyDocument("Merged.pdf")
pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\..\docs\TextMerge1.pdf")
pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\..\docs\TextMerge2.pdf")