 We Know PDF
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What people like about easyPDF SDK: |
| “We have done a test with over 5 products and easyPDF is absolutely the best we have tested” |
This is one of a series of articles to help make your PDF documents useful for your readers. Topics we will touch on include:
- PDF Page Transformation
- Highlight your PDF with Embedded Objects
- Bookmarking PDFs
- Extracting PDF Content
- Extracting PDF Meta Data
- Securing a PDF
Highlight your PDF with Embedded Objects
In this article we discuss how to draw attention to your PDF. This can be done by adding a note, drawing a circle or square, adding a hyperlink, adding text, or just attaching a file.
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| What |
Benefit |
How |
Function |
Add a Comment
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Put in comments that can be viewed or printed, but are not part of the main PDF document
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Attach a note to a specific part of the document
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AddNote
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| Add Text to the PDF |
Add text that will be printed with the PDF document
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Add text to the PDF itself |
AddFreeText |
| Add a Hyperlink |
Refer to external web sites |
Add a URL |
AddHyperlink |
| Add non PDF documents |
Add documents that can be viewed and edited in their original format |
Add a file to the PDF document |
AddAttachment |
| Comment on an area by putting a boundary around it |
Show a specific area you are commenting on |
Add a square or circle note |
AddSquareCircle
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| To add any of these annotations, simply download a fully functional evaluation copy of BCL’s easyPDF SDK and write a few lines of code. For
instance to add a note through your VB program, simply write the following code: |
| oProcessor.AddFreeText |
"C:\input.pdf", _
"C:\output.pdf", _
0, _
0, _
10, _
10, _
"FreeText test here.", _
"Author", _
"Subject", _
24, _
PRC_DEFFONT_HELVETICA, _
RGB(0, 0, 255) |
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| It’s that simple. BCL’s easyPDF SDK takes care of everything else in a number of other languages, including C#, Java, etc. If you need help, drop us a line, our staff is waiting to help you. |
