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Show and hide existing annotations in Xamarin

This tutorial only applies to Xamarin.Android.

By default, PDFViewCtrl shows all annotations on PDF document. If you want to hide a particular annotation on PDFViewCtrl, or hide all annotations on PDFViewCtrl, you can hide annotations as follows:

Show and hide one annotation

To show a hidden annotation in PDFViewCtrl, call ShowAnnotation:

C#

1void ShowAnnotation(PDFViewCtrl pdfViewCtrl, Annot annot, int annotPageNum) {
2  pdfViewCtrl.ShowAnnotation(annot);
3  pdfViewCtrl.Update(annot, annotPageNum);
4}

To hide an annotation in PDFViewCtrl, call HideAnnotation.

C#

1void HideAnnotation(PDFViewCtrl pdfViewCtrl, Annot annot, int annotPageNum) {
2  pdfViewCtrl.HideAnnotation(annot);
3  pdfViewCtrl.Update(annot, annotPageNum);
4}

After hide and show an annotation in PDFViewCtrl, You must call update to redraw the area covered with the given annotation.

Show and hide all annotations

Alternatively, you can show/hide all annotations in PDFViewCtrl by calling setDrawAnnotations(boolean). This method toggles the visibility of annotations and form fields.

For example, disabling all annotations and form fields from rendering:

C#

1pdfViewCtrl.SetDrawAnnotations(false);
2pdfViewCtrl.Update(true);

After toggling annotation and form fields visibility in PDFViewCtrl, You must call update to redraw the pdf content.

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