Cannot delete PDF from filesystem as it is locked by the process still.

[Ryan]

Question:

I am unable to delete a PDF file with the following code.

using (PDFDoc doc = new PDFDoc())
{
    pdftron.PDF.Annots.RubberStamp.Create(doc, new Rect(0, 0, 100, 100));
    doc.Save(output_path + "output1.pdf", SDFDoc.SaveOptions.e_remove_unused);
}
File.Delete(output_path + "output1.pdf");

The call to File.Delete will throw an exception that the file is locked by a process.

Answer:

The issue is that pdftron.PDF.Annots.RubberStamp.Create actually takes a SDFDoc object, and implicitly a SDFDoc object is being constructed. In turn, since this temp SDFDoc object is not in a using statement, and when the GC does not reclaim, it will typically outlast the using statement.

The solution is the following.

using (PDFDoc doc = new PDFDoc())
using (SDFDoc sdoc = doc.GetSDFDoc())

{
    pdftron.PDF.Annots.RubberStamp.Create(sdoc, new Rect(0, 0, 100, 100)); // use sdoc variable to avoid implicit construction
    doc.Save(output_path + "output1.pdf", SDFDoc.SaveOptions.e_remove_unused);
}
File.Delete(output_path + "output1.pdf");

We will look to modify our API so that is not an issue in a future release.