Display highlighted text in DynaPDFMBS

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I have a highlighted PDF (its a play script with the actor’s lines already highlighted in another app)

If I use any of the ways I know to display the PDF pages in a canvas on a window (eg the various permutations of RenderPagePicture/ Image etc etc

then the highlighting is ignored.

Is there a flag for this sort of thing?

(Im starting on Windows and cannot use the built in Mac classes exposed by MBS)

2

These highlights are usually annotations.

  1. Load PDF
  2. Call FlattenAnnots method
  3. Render page

Then discard the PDF in memory.

3

Sounded plausible. Sadly, nothing happened there.

4

Nothing?

Something like this?

Var f1 As Integer = pdf.FlattenAnnots(pdf.kafNone)
If f1 < 0 Then Return

Var f2 As Boolean = pdf.FlattenForm
If f2 = False Then Return

with checking for errors?

5

These dont generate any errors.

But here is the PDF, side by side with Mac’s Preview (still ultimately targetting Windows..)

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6

Solved:

The example code I had for displaying PDF includes this line:

Call pdf.SetImportFlags(pdf.kifImportAsPage) // important! It makes the rendering faster.

It also discards stuff like annotations. Commenting that line out works!

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