Tutorial - Merge Options

This example allows to set the merge options to merge documents containing Form Fields.

Add  two PDF documents that needs to be merged to a list. These files must contain form fields and bookmarks in them. Using the 'MergeOptions' method can set  the properties.

[VB]

'Create a list of documents to Merge

Dim DocList() As String

ReDim DocList(0 To 2)

DocList(0) = InputFile1

DocList(1) = InputFile2

DocList(2) = InputFile4

' Specify Merge Options.

PDFDoc.MergeOptions.IncludeFormFields = False

PDFDoc.MergeOptions.IncludeOutlines = True

' Load Documents to merge

PDFDoc.MergeDocs (DocList)

' Save the Document

PDFDoc.SaveToFile (OutputFile)

' Free the List

ReDim DocList(0)

[VC++]

Variant DocList;

//Create a list of documents To Merge 

char **files; 

files = New char*[2]; 

files[0] = New char[100];

files[1] = New char[100];

strcpy(files[0], InputFile1);

strcpy(files[1], InputFile2);

VariantInit(&DocList);

// GetVariantFromStrings is a utility Function provided In gtPDFkitUtils.h

DocList = GetVariantFromStrings(files, 2);

//Load Documents To merge

m_PDF.MergeDocs (DocList);

m_PDF.SaveToFile (OutputFile); 

[CS]

//Create a list of documents To Merge

String[] DocList = New String[3];

DocList[0] = InputFile1;

DocList[1] = InputFile2;

DocList[2] = InputFile4;

// Specify Merge Options.

PDFDoc.MergeOptions.IncludeFormFields = False;

PDFDoc.MergeOptions.IncludeOutlines = True;

// Load Documents To merge

PDFDoc.MergeDocs (DocList);

// Save the Document

PDFDoc.SaveToFile (OutputFile);