Migration Notes

Why To Migrate?

Here are the key reasons to use the new updated API provided by GroupDocs.Annotation for .NET since version 19.8:

Annotator class introduced as a single entry point to manage the document annotating process to any supported file format (instead of AnnotationImageHandler class from previous versions).
The overall rendering speed improved dramatically by saving rendered page as soon as it was rendered, not when all pages list were rendered.
Document saving options simplified so it’s easy to instantiate proper options class and control over document annotating and saving processes.

How To Migrate?

Here is a brief comparison of how to annotate document and save it using old and new API.

Old coding style

// Creating annotation list
List<AnnotationInfo> annotations = new List<AnnotationInfo>()
{
    new AnnotationInfo()
    {
        PageNumber = 0,
        Box = new Rectangle(100, 100, 100, 100),
        Type = Domain.AnnotationType.Area,
        Text = "area"
    },
                
    new AnnotationInfo()
    {
        PageNumber = 0,
        Box = new Rectangle(200, 200, 80, 80),
        Type = Domain.AnnotationType.Ellipse,
        Text = "ellipse"
    }
};

// Create annotation config
AnnotationConfig config = new AnnotationConfig();
// Set storage path
config.StoragePath = "storage";
// Create annotation handler
AnnotationImageHandler annotator = new AnnotationImageHandler(config);
// Create input file
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream("input.pdf", FileMode.Open))
{
    // Export annotations and save result
    Stream result = annotator.ExportAnnotationsToDocument(fs, annotations);
}

New coding style

// Create list of annotations
List<AnnotationBase> annotations = new List<AnnotationBase>()
{
    new AreaAnnotation()
    {
        PageNumber = 0,
        Box = new Rectangle(100, 100, 100, 100),
        Message = "area"
    },
                
    new EllipseAnnotation()
        {
            PageNumber = 0,
            Box = new Rectangle(200, 200, 80, 80),
            Message = "ellipse"
        }
};

// Create annotator
using  (Annotator annotator = new Annotator("input.pdf"))
{
    // Add annotations
    annotator.Add(annotations);
    // Save result to "result.pdf"
    annotator.Save("result.pdf", new SaveOptions());
}

For more code examples and specific use cases please refer to our Developer Guide documentation or GitHub samples and showcases.

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