PDFTRON - Download PDF with custom annotations

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srinivasan Bose

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Jul 20, 2016, 12:53:10 PM7/20/16
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Hi,

In our app, we need to enable viewer with a custom annotation. We are able to add custom annotations to webviewer and it is rendered properly. When i try to download iam not able to see the custom annotations in the downloaded file. I tried opening the file in Acrobat reader. 

While testing this, i added few more default annotations like line, arrow, text annotations. While downloading i am able to see the default annotations but custom annotation is missing. 

I tried with the sample link as well, issue was there as well. I tried with samples with "pdf" option selected.


In above link i added the custom diamond annotation and few lines. Then i clicked on download icon. When file downloaded, custom diamond is not shown whereas lines are seen in the document.

can you advice us on how to enable download with custom annotations?

Matt Parizeau

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Jul 21, 2016, 9:30:46 PM7/21/16
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Since custom annotations aren't part of the PDF spec, unfortunately they aren't able to be saved and viewed in other PDF viewers.

You can have them saved and loaded inside of WebViewer by saving and loading the XFDF with your own serverURL.

Matt Parizeau
Software Developer
PDFTron Systems Inc.
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