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OCG layer browser

Apryse SDK allows you to browse OCG layers associated with the document.

Show or hide PDF layers in Xamarin.Android

This tutorial only applies to Xamarin.Android. See the Xamarin.iOS equivalent here .

A PDF OCG (Optional Content Groups) dictionary represents a collection of graphic objects that can be made visible or invisible. Any graphic content of the PDF can be made optional, including page contents, XObjects, and annotations.

The PdfLayerDialogFragment allows you to browse OCG layers associated with the document. You can selectively render layers based on their states. In a tree view of nested layers, if the parent layer is hidden, the child layers are automatically hidden as well. If the parent layer is visible, child layers can be made visible or hidden.

Show the OCG layer browser

C#

1public void Show(PDFViewCtrl pdfViewCtrl, FragmentManager fragmentManager) {
2    var pdfLayerDialogFragment = PdfLayerDialogFragment.NewInstance();
3    pdfLayerDialogFragment.SetPdfViewCtrl(pdfViewCtrl);
4    pdfLayerDialogFragment.SetStyle((int)DialogFragmentStyle.NoTitle, Resource.Style.PDFTronAppTheme);
5    if (fragmentManager != null) {
6        pdfLayerDialogFragment.Show(fragmentManager, "pdf_layer_dialog");
7    }
8}

Show or hide PDF layers in Xamarin.iOS

This tutorial only applies to Xamarin.iOS. See the Xamarin.Android equivalent here .

The PTPDFLayerViewController allows you to browse OCG layers associated with the document being viewed by a PTPDFViewCtrl. You can selectively render layers based on their states.

PDF layer browser.

The PDF layer control is part of the Tools library, so make sure you have added the Tools library to your project.

Show the OCG layer browser

To create a new PDF layer view controller instance and display it from another view controller, supply a PTPDFViewCtrl instance to the PTPDFLayerViewController designated initializer:

C#

1var pdfLayerViewController = new pdftron.PDF.Controls.PTPDFLayerViewController (mPdfViewCtrl);
2
3var navigationController = new UINavigationController (pdfLayerViewController);
4
5if (UserInterfaceIdiomIsPad)
6{
7    navigationController.ModalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.Popover;
8    navigationController.PopoverPresentationController.BarButtonItem = layerButton;
9}
10
11this.PresentViewController (navigationController, true, null);

The PDF layer view controller must be pushed onto a navigation controller's stack before being shown.

Presenting on iPads:

The PDF layer view controller is designed to be presented in a popover on iPads. To do so, you must provide the PTPDFLayerViewController's PopoverPresentationController with either:

a SourceRect AND
a SourceView

a BarButtonItem

as in the example above.

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