AnnotationContainer Property

Summary

LEADTOOLS Annotation container that contains the objects to use when annotating a page in PDF documents.

Syntax

C++/CLI

Python

public object AnnotationContainer { get; set; }

public: 
property Object^ AnnotationContainer { 
   Object^ get(); 
   void set (    Object^ ); 
}

AnnotationContainer # get and set (DocumentWriterEmfPage)

Property Value

An optional Object that must point to a valid instance of AnnContainer class containing the objects to use when annotating a page in PDF documents. Default value is null (Nothing in VB).

Remarks

The AnnotationContainer property is optional and is used only when the document being created is PDF. To create a PDF document with annotations, perform the following steps:

You can use the DocumentWriter.GetOptions and DocumentWriter.SetOptions methods to the get the options used when saving a PDF document.
Call DocumentWriter.BeginDocument with DocumentFormat.Pdf as the format to use.
Add the document pages. The DocumentWriterEmfPage.EmfHandle property must point to the EMF representation of the page and the DocumentWriterEmfPage.AnnotationContainer property must contain a valid AnnContainer object holding the annotation objects to be saved for this page.
Repeat for each page in the document.
Call DocumentWriter.EndDocument to finish creating the document file on disk.

For more information, refer to PdfDocumentOptions.

Note that AnnContainer is used only when the document being created is PDF.also saving annotated document is not supported when DocumentType is PdfDocumentType.PdfA.

Example

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Document.Writer; 
using Leadtools.Ocr; 
 
 
public void DocumentEmfPageExample() 
{ 
   // Output PDF file name 
   var pdfFileName = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "Example.pdf"); 
 
   // Document properties, each page is 8.5 by 11 inches at 300 DPI. Typical dimensions 
   var resolution = 300; 
   var pageWidth = (int)(8.5 * resolution); 
   var pageHeight = (int)(11 * resolution); 
 
   // Create the document writer 
   var docWriter = new DocumentWriter(); 
   docWriter.BeginDocument(pdfFileName, DocumentFormat.Pdf); 
 
   for (var pageNumber = 1; pageNumber <= 2; pageNumber++) 
   { 
      var page = new DocumentWriterEmfPage(); 
      page.EmfHandle = GetPageEmf(pageNumber, pageWidth, pageHeight, resolution); 
      docWriter.AddPage(page); 
 
      if (page.EmfHandle != IntPtr.Zero) 
         DeleteEnhMetaFile(page.EmfHandle); 
   } 
 
   docWriter.EndDocument(); 
 
   // To show the PDF file 
   // System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(pdfFileName); 
} 
 
private static IntPtr GetPageEmf(int pageNumber, int pageWidth, int pageHeight, int resolution) 
{ 
   // Get the screen DC 
   using (var graphicsScreen = Graphics.FromHwndInternal(IntPtr.Zero)) 
   { 
      var hdcScreen = graphicsScreen.GetHdc(); 
 
      // Calculate the EMF rectangle in 1/100 mm 
      var frameRect = new RectangleF( 
         0, 
         0, 
         ((float)pageWidth * 2540 + resolution / 2) / resolution, 
         ((float)pageHeight * 2540 + resolution / 2) / resolution); 
 
      // Create the EMF, GDI compatible 
      using (var metaFile = new Metafile(hdcScreen, frameRect, MetafileFrameUnit.GdiCompatible, EmfType.EmfOnly, null)) 
      { 
         // No need for this anymore 
         graphicsScreen.ReleaseHdc(hdcScreen); 
 
         // Now create the graphics to draw in from the metafile 
         using (var graphics = Graphics.FromImage(metaFile)) 
         { 
            // Get the EMF DPI 
            MetafileHeader header = metaFile.GetMetafileHeader(); 
            var emfDpiX = header.DpiX; 
            var emfDpiY = header.DpiY; 
 
            // We must convert each value we want from pixels to EMF coordinates, so use a scale 
            graphics.ScaleTransform(emfDpiX / resolution, emfDpiY / resolution); 
 
            // To draw font, we must use this scale value to convert from point size 
            var fontScale = (float)resolution / Math.Max(graphics.DpiX, graphics.DpiY); 
 
            // Ready, now we can draw... 
 
            // Fill it with white 
            var rc = new RectangleF(0, 0, pageWidth, pageHeight); 
            graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.White, rc); 
 
            // Put a frame 
            rc = new RectangleF(1, 1, pageWidth - 2, pageHeight - 2); 
            graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.DarkGreen, rc.X, rc.Y, rc.Width, rc.Height); 
 
            // Draw some text 
            var text = "This is page " + pageNumber.ToString(); 
 
            float pointSize = 20 * fontScale; 
            // fonts need to converted to scaled back, so ... 
            using (var font = new Font("Arial", pointSize, FontStyle.Regular)) 
               graphics.DrawString(text, font, Brushes.Black, 0, 0); 
 
            // Add some vector objects, red line 
            rc = new Rectangle(50, 50, pageWidth - 100, pageHeight - 100); 
            graphics.DrawLine(Pens.Red, rc.Left, rc.Top, rc.Right, rc.Bottom); 
 
            // blue rect somewhere 
            rc = new Rectangle(100, 100, 150, 100); 
            graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.Blue, rc); 
         } 
 
         return metaFile.GetHenhmetafile(); 
      } 
   } 
} 
 
// GDI interop 
[DllImport("gdi32.dll")] 
private static extern int DeleteEnhMetaFile(IntPtr hemf); 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS23\Resources\Images"; 
}