AnnotationContainer Property

Summary

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

Syntax

C++

public object AnnotationContainer { get; set; }

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

Public Property AnnotationContainer() As Object 
   Get 
   Set

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

For an example, refer to DocumentWriterEmfPage.

Requirements

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