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How to create annotation with ULR opening action in PDF document using PDFDoc Scout library:

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_action_annotation.zip (55,6 KB)

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

screenshot of produced PDF with annotation with action

 Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument") ' create PDFDoc object

 PDFDoc.InitLibrary "demo", "demo" ' initialize library

  

 PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "pdfdocscout_example_action_annotation.pdf" ' set output filename for PDF document

 PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true ' automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application

  

 PDFDoc.BeginDocument ' starts PDF document generation

  

 ' Add URL Action

 Set Action = PDFDoc.AddURLAction ("http://bytescout.com")

 ' Add Annotation for URLAction

 PDFDoc.Page.AddActionAnnotation 100, 50, 150, 100, Action

  

' Add button

 Set btnTest = PDFDoc.Page.AddButton ("btnTest", 100, 100, 150, 110)

 ' Set button action

 btnTest.OnMouseDown = Action

  

 PDFDoc.EndDocument ' close pdf document generation

  

 ' disconnect from library

 Set PDFDoc = Nothing

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_action_annotation.zip (55,6 KB)

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