Filtering annotation types on document save

This feature can be using when need to save only specific annotation types and ignore others.

The following are the steps how to filter exported annotations to document:

Instantiate Annotator object with input document path or stream;
Instantiate SaveOptions object and set AnnotationType desired annotation type(s), that will presented in resultant document;
Call Save method with resultant document path or stream and SaveOptions object;

Following code snippet shows how to save only pages with specific annotation type

using (Annotator annotator = new Annotator("input.pdf"))
{
	AreaAnnotation area = new AreaAnnotation()
    {
    	Box = new Rectangle(100, 100, 100, 100),
        BackgroundColor = 65535,
        PageNumber = 1
    };
    EllipseAnnotation ellipse = new EllipseAnnotation()
    {
        Box = new Rectangle(100, 100, 100, 100),
        BackgroundColor = 123456,
        PageNumber = 1
    };
    annotator.Add(new List<AnnotationBase>() { area, ellipse });
	
	//Result file will contains only ellipse annotations.
    annotator.Save("result.pdf" new SaveOptions { AnnotationTypes = AnnotationType.Ellipse});
}

If you need to add more than one annotation filter, you can using logical operator “OR” (“|”):

Following code snippet shows how to save pages with specific multiple annotation types

using (Annotator annotator = new Annotator("input.pdf"))
{
	...
    annotator.Save("result.pdf" new SaveOptions { AnnotationTypes = AnnotationType.Ellipse|AnnotationType.Watermark});
}

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GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

Free Online App

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Saving Save only annotated pages