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How do I get form field annotations to print?

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:07:18 UT

Q: The pdf outputs from your sample project InteractiveFormsTest
([link]) shows
text in text boxes and check in check boxes when opened with Adobe
Reader 9.0. When printing however, the text and checks are not
printed and the page is blank. How do I get the text and checks to

How do I resolve 'Dependent Assembly could not be found' in 64-bit version of 'PDFNet for .NET'?

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:22:01 UT

Q: Today I tried out your 64-bit version of PDFNet for .NET by
downloading the trial and compiling your PdfViewSimple sample. I get
an exception that some DLL is missing:

Dependent Assembly:
Microsoft.VC90.CRT,processorAr chitecture="amd64",publicKeyTo ken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="w in32",version="9.0.21022.8"

Read and Write Tags in Tagged

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:10:46 UT

Q: How do I Read and Write Tags in Tagged PDF using PDFNet SDK (http://
[link]

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A: As a starting point for your project, you may want to take a look
at LogicalStructure ([link]
samplecode.html#LogicalStructu re) sample project.

PDF Text find and replace

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:03:52 UT

Q: I am now doing text replacement ,I have already read some
advices ,which are given in the former article ,what I have achieved
now is the find ,and got the placeholder of the word ,or text ,but
when I write new element to the box of the text ,the format will
change ,e.g the the font size of the letters , I know it's about the

How do I get annotation rectangle on a rotated PDF page?

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:44:33 UT

Q: I have a PDF file that the user rotated after editing. When I open
it with Acrobat Reader the annotations are in the right place but when
I am trying to extract those annotations box, the rectangle has the
old coordinates without any rotation applied to them.

Rect box = annot.getRect();
int rot = page.getRotation();

How do I size the image when placing it on a PDF page?

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:47:19 UT

Q: I’m experiencing some issues when adding an image to a pdf page. I
have a PDF document of 91 x 61 mm. I add an image to this which is 20mm
(236px with a dpi of 300). When I step trough my code I see that those
values are nicely used but in the resulting pdf the image is too big.

I have the following code:

How do I embed PJTF or JDF job ticket in PDF using PDFNet SDK?

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:53:41 UT

Q: How do I embed PJTF or JDF job ticket in PDF using PDFNet SDK?

Job ticket files are used for embedding print instructions (such as
duplex printing etc) so that PDF can be used further without any
printer instruction to print.

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A: You can use PDFNet SDK ([link]) to embed

ANN: An update for PDFNet SDK for Mac OS X (C/C++/JAVA)

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:49:10 UT

PDFTron Systems released an update of PDFNet SDK on Mac OS X (C/C++/
JAVA).
To download PDFNet SDK v4.51 visit: [link]

For a list of changes, please refer to 'whatsnew.html' which is
included as part of PDFNet SDK distribution.

Traversing OCGs in an OCMD dictionary.

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:03:25 UT

Q: We uncountered a exception when using the following lines to access
Optional Content Groups in a specific PDF document:

OCG::OCMD ocmd(obj);
Obj ocgs = ocmd.GetOCGs();

We are currently working around this by catching the exception, but
can you please let us know if this is something we need to handle in

How can I recieve a notification when a PDF document is modified?

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:55:17 UT

Q: I'm wondering if there is a way to receive notification when a PDF
has changed. I know that you can manually check the PDFDoc.IsModified
property, but I would like to automatically receive notification when
the document is changed via an event, ie 'DocumentChangedEvent'. Is
there anything of this sort available? Essentially I have a form that

How do I detect is a PDF is encrypted using AES?

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:34:34 UT

Q: We are looking for a way to detect if a PDF has AES security
applied to it, and at what bitstrength. We noticed in the PDFNet
documentation there is a SecurityHandler.IsAES() function, as well as
an overloaded version that accepts an Obj as a parameter (although the
version without parameters does not appear to actually exist in .NET

How do I extract the JavaScript from a bookmark in PDF?

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:25:58 UT

Q: How do I extract the JavaScript text from a bookmark? (I would
like to parse it) I have been trying to extract the text but had no
had luck so far - I only found how to add it. Any help is
appreciated....

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A: You can extract JavaScript from an action that is associated with a
bookmark. For example:

What is the proper way to set values on PDF form fields?

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:23:39 UT

Q: I have this issue when filling a form from C# code - when I do
print - the filled values are not displayed.

The way I fill in the pdf form is:

For(int index = 0; index <annots.Size;index++) {
Annot currentAnnot = objPage.getAnnot(index);
Field field = currentAnnot.GetWidgetField();

How do I set a soft mask (luminosity) in PDF graphics state?

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:18:40 UT

Q: Dou you have any simple to edit and change the soft mask
(luminosity) in PDF graphics state for arbitrary PDF element?

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A: You could use element.GetGSate().SetSoftMask (smask_dict) to set the
soft mask that will affect subsequent elements on the page (please see
"Soft-Mask Dictionaries" in PDF Reference for more information).

Can I convert PDF to UTF-8 compliant xml files using PDFNet SDK?

supp...@pdftron.com (Support) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:11:16 UT

Q: I'm looking to know if your PDF converter will take PDFs and
convert them to UTF-8 compliant xml files.
Specifically, I'm looking to create an xml source file (type xmlpipe2)
from PDF to be indexed by the Sphinx search engine.

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A: You could use either PDFNet SDK ([link]) or