PdfOptionalContentVisibility.Groups Property

Provides access to objects stored in the PdfOptionalContentGroupVisibilityCollection.

Namespace: DevExpress.Pdf

Assembly: DevExpress.Pdf.v25.1.Core.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Pdf.Core

Declaration

C#

public PdfOptionalContentGroupVisibilityCollection Groups { get; }

VB.NET

Public ReadOnly Property Groups As PdfOptionalContentGroupVisibilityCollection

Property Value

Type	Description
PdfOptionalContentGroupVisibilityCollection	A collection of PdfOptionalContentGroupVisibility objects.

Remarks

The PdfOptionalContentGroupVisibility class contains visibility settings that correspond to a layer (the PdfOptionalContentGroup object). All PdfOptionalContentGroupVisibility objects are stored in a PdfOptionalContentGroupVisibilityCollection object and can be accessed with the PdfDocumentFacade.OptionalContentVisibility.Groups property by index.

The following code snippet hides two layers in the “PdfLayers.pdf” document and displays the third layer:

C#

using DevExpress.Pdf;
using System;
using System.Linq;
using DevExpress.Drawing;

static void Main(string[] args) {
    using (PdfDocumentProcessor processor = new PdfDocumentProcessor()) {
        processor.LoadDocument("PdfLayers.pdf");
        // Set visibility settings for each layer contained in a document.
        processor.DocumentFacade.OptionalContentVisibility.Groups[0].Visible = false;
        processor.DocumentFacade.OptionalContentVisibility.Groups[1].Visible = false;
        processor.DocumentFacade.OptionalContentVisibility.Groups[2].Visible = true;
        // Print the document.
        DXBitmap bitmap = processor.CreateDXBitmap(1, 1000);
        PdfPrinterSettings pdfPrinterSettings = new PdfPrinterSettings();
        processor.Print(pdfPrinterSettings);
    }
}

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.Pdf
Imports System
Imports System.Linq
Imports DevExpress.Drawing

Private Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())
    Using processor As New PdfDocumentProcessor()
        processor.LoadDocument("PdfLayers.pdf")
        ' Set visibility settings for each layer contained in a document.
        processor.DocumentFacade.OptionalContentVisibility.Groups(0).Visible = False
        processor.DocumentFacade.OptionalContentVisibility.Groups(1).Visible = False
        processor.DocumentFacade.OptionalContentVisibility.Groups(2).Visible = True
        ' Print the document.
        Dim bitmap As DXBitmap = processor.CreateDXBitmap(1, 1000)
        Dim pdfPrinterSettings As New PdfPrinterSettings()
        processor.Print(pdfPrinterSettings)
    End Using
End Sub