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PdfPageFacade.AddFileAttachmentAnnotation(PdfRectangle, PdfFileAttachment, String) Method

Creates a file attachment annotation in the specified page rectangle.

Namespace: DevExpress.Pdf

Assembly: DevExpress.Pdf.v24.2.Core.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Pdf.Core

#Declaration

public PdfFileAttachmentAnnotationFacade AddFileAttachmentAnnotation(
    PdfRectangle rect,
    PdfFileAttachment file,
    string iconName
)

#Parameters

Name Type Description
rect PdfRectangle

A page area to add the annotation.

file PdfFileAttachment

The file associated with this annotation.

#Optional Parameters

Name Type Default Description
iconName String "PushPin"

The annotation icon name.

#Returns

Type Description
PdfFileAttachmentAnnotationFacade

An object that contains file attachment annotation properties.

#Remarks

The code sample below creates a file attachment annotation:

using DevExpress.Pdf;
using System.IO;
//...
using (PdfDocumentProcessor processor = new PdfDocumentProcessor())
{
    // Load a document
    processor.LoadDocument("..\\..\\Document.pdf");

    // Access the first page properties
    PdfPageFacade pageFacade = processor.DocumentFacade.Pages[0];

    // Define an annotation area
    PdfRectangle pdfRectangle = new PdfRectangle(684, 152, 704, 172);

    // Specify attachment data
    PdfFileAttachment attachment = new PdfFileAttachment()
    {
        CreationDate = DateTime.Now,
        Description = "This is my attached file.",
        FileName = "MyAttach.txt",
        Data = File.ReadAllBytes("..\\..\\FileToAttach.txt")
    };

    // Create an annotation
    PdfFileAttachmentAnnotationFacade fileAttachmentAnnotation =
       pageFacade.AddFileAttachmentAnnotation(pdfRectangle, attachment, PdfFileAttachmentAnnotationIconName.Graph);

    // Specify annotation properties
    fileAttachmentAnnotation.Author = "Sabella Jaida";
    fileAttachmentAnnotation.Subject = "File Attachment";

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