Greetings,

I am looking for a PDF control that can do the following:

1) Convert word and other documents to PDF.

2) Merge multiple PDF documents into one document.

3) Create a single document from a document that has been distributed for review by merging all of the comments into the document.

Can your pdf controls do one or all?

thank you,
todd boewe
Principal Consultant
ANZUS Technologies

Hi,

Thank you for considering Aspose.

1) Yes you can convert a Word document to Pdf. To attain this task you need to have two products from Aspose: Aspose.Pdf and Aspose.Words. Please refer to following:

http://www.aspose.com/wiki/default.aspx/Aspose.Pdf/WordToPDF.html

2) To merge multiple Pdf you need Aspose another product named as Aspose.Pdf.Kit. Please check the following URL to merge multiple PDF's:

http://www.aspose.com/wiki/default.aspx/Aspose.Pdf.Kit/ConcatenatePDFDocuments.html

3) Sorry I didn't understand this point, could you please elaborate?

Thanks.

For #3 above, here is the scenario:

Three identical copies of a PDF are distributed to 3 individual reviewers.  Each reviewer will open the PDF copy using Adobe Professional, then proceed to add annotations to the PDF -- sticky notes, highlighting, etc.

Once the process is completed, the reviewers will save the document to a pre-determined location.  Thereafter, the documents will be consumed by a program that combines all of the annotations onto a single copy of the document.  Since each reviewer is reviewing the same document, we do not need three copies of the document; we only want one copy, with the annotations from all three reviewers.  We are looking for a control that can perform this function.

Hi,

Thank you for considering aspose products.

About #3 you mentioned above, now the aspose pdf kits can not finished this task, but we can analyse this requirement and consider whether to add this function afeter investigating the problem.

I will give a reply later, please pay attention to the post again.

hi,

After investigating this problem, we plan to add a function ImprotAnnotationsFromXfdf() to import a xfdf file that contains the information of annotations into a pdf document, then, the apose pdf kit can do the #3 task  you methioned above as below.

1.First export all annotations of each pdf document into a xfdf file using PdfContentEditor.ExportAnnotationsXfdf().

2.Then import all the xfdf files into the destination pdf document using ImprotAnnotationsFromXfdf().

We need about one month to finish the ImprotAnnotationsFromXfdf().

Do you think the solution  can help you to finish this task?

Getting this functionality has become very important to the completion of this project for the state.  Can you provide me with some assurance that you are proceeding to put this in the release in a month or so?

To make sure that my description is consistent with your understanding, I have attached 3 files that demonstrate what we need.  copy1.pdf contains the annotations from one reviewer, and copy2 from a second reviewer.  mergedcopy.pdf contains the desired result.

Hi,

I have checked your sample pdf files and understood your requirements. we will try to finish this function about a month, however, we may meet some technology problems in the future work because  many types of annotations need to be processed. So i can not assert a month but we will try our best to finish this function in a month.

Greetings,

Can you provide me with an updated status on adding ImportAnnotationsFromXfdf()?

thank you

Hi,

The method is included in the new release that will be published this week. 

Thanks,

Hi,

The new release Aspose.Pdf.Kit 3.1.0.0 is published, please download and try it.

Thanks,

It appears to be working well.  Thank you!!

So far I have only hit one bug.  If the output pdf is then used as an input pdf, and the annotation import includes AnnotationType.Polygon, then an "Object Reference Not Set to an Instance of an Object" is thrown.  I tested with all the annotation types and this was the only one that threw the error.

Also, is it possible to pass a stream document array instead of a string of document names/paths?  I'll be pulling the documents from SharePoint and a URI string is not supported.  For now I will write the docs to file, process them, then write them back to SharePoint.

Hi,

We can reproduce this error and we will fix it as soon as possible, as for stream parameter problem, we will add a function to support it.

Hi,

I am also looking for this kind of functionality..can someone suggest some ideas on this. How do we let the users edit the comments rather than putting them at runtime.

http://www.aspose.com/community/forums/thread/137461/how-can-we-enable-the-comments-feature-for-the-generated-pdf.aspx

Thanks & regards,
Prasanjit Mandal      

Hi,

Thank you for considering Aspose.

With Aspose.Pdf.Kit, you could create all kinds of comments through the 'CreatXXX's methods of PdfContentEditor class, please refer to http://www.aspose.com/documentation/file-format-components/aspose.pdf.kit-for-.net-and-java/aspose.pdf.kit.pdfcontenteditormethods.html;

and for merging and importing existing comments(annotations) to a pdf file, you could use the methods in PdfAnnotationEditor class, please refer to http://www.aspose.com/documentation/file-format-components/aspose.pdf.kit-for-.net-and-java/aspose.pdf.kit.pdfannotationeditormethods.html.

Thanks,