ElementEdit

Sample C# code for using Apryse SDK to programmatically edit an existing PDF document's page display list and the graphics state attributes on existing elements. In particular, this sample strips all images from the page and changes the text color to blue. You can also build a GUI with interactive PDF editor widgets. Some of Apryse SDK's other functions for programmatically editing PDFs include the Cos/SDF low-level API, page manipulation, and more. Learn more about our Xamarin SDK and PDF Editing & Manipulation Library.

1//
2// Copyright (c) 2001-2021 by PDFTron Systems Inc. All Rights Reserved.
3//
4
5using System;
6using System.Collections.Generic;
7
8using pdftron;
9using pdftron.Common;
10using pdftron.Filters;
11using pdftron.SDF;
12using pdftron.PDF;
13
14using XSet = System.Collections.Generic.List<int>;
15
16using NUnit.Framework;
17
18namespace MiscellaneousSamples
19{
20 /// <summary>
21 /// The sample code shows how to edit the page display list and how to modify graphics state
22 /// attributes on existing Elements. In particular the sample program strips all images from
23 /// the page, changes path fill color to red, and changes text fill color to blue.
24 /// </summary>
25 [TestFixture]
26 public class ElementEditTest
27 {
28
29 static void ProcessElements(ElementReader reader, ElementWriter writer, XSet visited)
30 {
31 Element element;
32 while ((element = reader.Next()) != null) // Read page contents
33 {
34 switch (element.GetType())
35 {
36 case Element.Type.e_image:
37 case Element.Type.e_inline_image:
38 // remove all images by skipping them
39 break;
40 case Element.Type.e_path:
41 {
42 // Set all paths to red color.
43 GState gs = element.GetGState();
44 gs.SetFillColorSpace(ColorSpace.CreateDeviceRGB());
45 gs.SetFillColor(new ColorPt(1, 0, 0));
46 writer.WriteElement(element);
47 break;
48 }
49 case Element.Type.e_text:
50 {
51 // Set all text to blue color.
52 GState gs = element.GetGState();
53 gs.SetFillColorSpace(ColorSpace.CreateDeviceRGB());
54 gs.SetFillColor(new ColorPt(0, 0, 1));
55 writer.WriteElement(element);
56 break;
57 }
58 case Element.Type.e_form:
59 {
60 writer.WriteElement(element); // write Form XObject reference to current stream
61
62 Obj form_obj = element.GetXObject();
63 if (!visited.Contains(form_obj.GetObjNum())) // if this XObject has not been processed
64 {
65 // recursively process the Form XObject
66 visited.Add(form_obj.GetObjNum());
67 ElementWriter new_writer = new ElementWriter();
68
69 reader.FormBegin();
70 new_writer.Begin(form_obj, true);
71
72 reader.ClearChangeList();
73 new_writer.SetDefaultGState(reader);
74
75 ProcessElements(reader, new_writer, visited);
76 new_writer.End();
77 reader.End();
78 }
79 break;
80 }
81 default:
82 writer.WriteElement(element);
83 break;
84 }
85 }
86 }
87
88 /// <summary>
89 /// The main entry point for the application.
90 /// </summary>
91 [Test]
92 public static void Sample()
93 {
94
95 // Relative path to the folder containing test files.
96 const string input_path = "TestFiles/";
97 string input_filename = "newsletter.pdf";
98 string output_filename = "newsletter_edited.pdf";
99
100 try
101 {
102 Console.WriteLine("Opening the input file...");
103 using (PDFDoc doc = new PDFDoc(Utils.GetAssetTempFile(input_path + input_filename)))
104 {
105 doc.InitSecurityHandler();
106
107 ElementWriter writer = new ElementWriter();
108 ElementReader reader = new ElementReader();
109 XSet visited = new XSet();
110
111 PageIterator itr = doc.GetPageIterator();
112
113 while (itr.HasNext())
114 {
115 try
116 {
117 Page page = itr.Current();
118 visited.Add(page.GetSDFObj().GetObjNum());
119
120 reader.Begin(page);
121 writer.Begin(page, ElementWriter.WriteMode.e_replacement, false, true, page.GetResourceDict());
122
123 ProcessElements(reader, writer, visited);
124 writer.End();
125 reader.End();
126
127 itr.Next();
128 }
129 catch (PDFNetException e)
130 {
131 Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
132 Assert.True(false);
133 }
134 }
135
136 doc.Save(Utils.CreateExternalFile(output_filename), SDFDoc.SaveOptions.e_remove_unused);
137 Console.WriteLine("Done. Result saved in {0}...", output_filename);
138 }
139 }
140 catch (PDFNetException e)
141 {
142 Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
143 Assert.True(false);
144 }
145 }
146 }
147}

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