ByteScout Premium Suite – C# – Set navigation bookmarks in pdf with pdf sdk

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How to set navigation bookmarks in pdf with pdf sdk in C# with ByteScout Premium Suite

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to set navigation bookmarks in pdf with pdf sdk in C#

The coding instructions are formulated to help you to try-out the features without the requirement to write your own code. ByteScout Premium Suite is the set that includes 12 SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording and you can use it to set navigation bookmarks in pdf with pdf sdk with C#.

Want to save time? You will save a lot of time on writing and testing code as you may just take the C# code from ByteScout Premium Suite for set navigation bookmarks in pdf with pdf sdk below and use it in your application. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for C# below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Complete and detailed tutorials and documentation are available along with installed ByteScout Premium Suite if you’d like to learn more about the topic and the details of the API.

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Program.cs

      using System.CodeDom;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDF;

namespace Bookmarks
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This example demonstrates how to create document outlines (bookmarks).
    /// </summary>
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // Create new document
            Document pdfDocument = new Document();
            pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo";
            pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo";
            
            Font font = new Font(StandardFonts.Times, 18);
            Brush brush = new SolidBrush();

            // Create pages
            for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
            {
                Page page = new Page(PaperFormat.A4);
                page.Canvas.DrawString(string.Format("Page {0}", i + 1), font, brush, 20, 20);
                pdfDocument.Pages.Add(page);
            }

            // Create outlines:

            Destination destination1 = new Destination(pdfDocument.Pages[0]);
            Outline outline1 = new Outline("Page 1", destination1);
            pdfDocument.Outlines.Add(outline1);

            // Example of sub-bookmark
            Destination destination2 = new Destination(pdfDocument.Pages[1]);
            Outline outline2 = new Outline("Page 2", destination2);
            pdfDocument.Outlines[0].Kids.Add(outline2);

            Destination destination3 = new Destination(pdfDocument.Pages[2]);
            Outline outline3 = new Outline("Page 3", destination3);
            pdfDocument.Outlines.Add(outline3);

            // Force PDF viewer to show Bookmarks panel at start up.
            pdfDocument.PageMode = PageMode.Outlines;
            
            // Save document to file
            pdfDocument.Save("result.pdf");

            // Cleanup 
            pdfDocument.Dispose();

            // Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("result.pdf");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}