Re: Saving Annotations in TIF and PDF (VB.NET)

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Hi Maen,

How about saving the annotation as part of the image. Is the method same for TIF and PDF Files?
Our prefered image types are TIF and PDF.

Could you provide the lines of code to save the annotation with image which will fit in the project
that you have provide?

Thanks
Francis Thomas

If you mean that you want to save the annotation objects to a TIFF tag, you can do this by using the following code:
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//Save the image as TIF format
Dim codecs As New RasterCodecs()
codecs.Save(RasterImageViewer1.Image, "..\..\Res.tif", RasterImageFormat.Tif, 24)

//Write the annotations to the TIF file
Dim ann As New AnnCodecs
Dim tag As RasterTagMetadata = ann.SaveToTag(automation.Container, AnnCodecsTagFormat.Tiff)
If (Not tag Is Nothing) Then
codecs.WriteTag("..\..\Res.tif", 1, tag)
End If
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For more information, please see the following online help topic:
http://www.leadtools.com/help/leadtools/v175/dh/an/leadtools.annotations~leadtools.annotations.anncodecs~savetotag.html

About annotations with PDF files, we recently added the ability to write native PDF annotations to PDF files. To get more details, please send an email to support@leadtools.com and mention this forum post in your email to support.

Thanks,
Maen Badwan
LEADTOOLS Technical Support

Hi Maen,

I have included the code in the project . It just saves the image in TIF format, the annotation is not saved into the image. The code do not generate any errors. Do I need to do anythig more?

Thanks
Francis Thomas

Francis,

The code saves the annotation objects in the TIFF file Tags. If you mean that you want to burn (realize) the annotations directly on the image, you can do this using the automation.Realize() method. For more information, see the following online help topic:
http://www.leadtools.com/help/leadtools/v175/dh/an/leadtools.annotations~leadtools.annotations.annautomation~realize.html

Thanks,
Maen Badwan
LEADTOOLS Technical Support