Hi,

I have the following case:

A tiff is loaded in an AnnotateViewer

Annotations are created from a database

I want to save the tiff as a pdf file with xmp annotations

I'm doing as follows

  Dim at As New Formatters.XmpFormatter
  at.CreateXmpPacket = True
  at.Formatting = Xml.Formatting.None
  Dim pdfenc As New Pdf.PdfEncoder

  pdfenc.UseAdvancedImageCompression = True
  pdfenc.JpegQuality = 10
  pdfenc.SizeMode = Pdf.PdfPageSizeMode.FitToImage
  pdfenc.Xmp = anw.Annotations.Save(at)
  anw.Save("g:\2.pdf", pdfenc)

 Where anw: Dim anw As New Atalasoft.Annotate.UI.AnnotateViewer

But the resulting file, 2.pdf, has only the image in it, not the XMP highlighting as well

What should I do to also have the annotations in the PDF file?

Regards

Andrei Gosman 

You will not see the annotations when viewing the PDF:  The XMP data is not the same as PDF annotations.  We are planning to add support for real PDF annotations in a future release, but for now you would only see them if you burn the annotations onto the image before saving.  Of course that means they can no longer be modified.

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Glenn Chittenden Jr.
Atalasoft Development Team

Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply.

The problem is then I burn the annotations, I have to convert the image from 1bbp TIFF to a 24bbp format

and the resulting file will be huge. Is there a solution for this problem? I mean, after burning annotations, to convert to another smaller format but still have transparent annotations