Using PDFNet to view and annotate PDF in Silverlight.

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Q: We want to use PDFNet SDK for the following:

  1. Split each pdf file page into image thumbnail(to generate dz files to view in Silverlight client. )

  2. User may write annotations on pages in meeting After meeting we want to print annotations on PDF file and allow user to download the pdf file with/without annotations.

Is this possible with PDF net SDK and if yes how?

P.S: the annotations will be written in free hand writing

A:

You can use PDFNet SDK in your solution. Actually PDFNet can directly export Silverlight optimized documents (using pdftron.PDF.ToSilverlight()) and the resulting documents can be viewed using SilverDox Viewer (http://www.pdftron.com/silverdox) .

SilverDox also comes with built-in support for annotations and is completely customizable. As a starting point please take a look at the following resources:

http://www.pdftron.com/silverdox/samplecode.html

http://www.pdftron.com/silverdox/documentation/Index.html

Forum & KB: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/silverdox

SilverDoxConver and SilverDoxStreaming samples which are part of PDFNet SDK (http://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/samplecode.html#SilverDox).

Besides conversion and streaming to XOD, PDFNet can also be used to render thumbnails (e.g. see PDFDraw sample - http://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/samplecode.html#PDFDraw), extract text, split & merge files, add watermarks, etc…