Border around a PDF document

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Hello, I need to draw a border (rectangle) of a certain width and color around the whole document. What appropriate function could I use to do it?

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello relapse,

You have posted in the Viewer SDK forums. If you are a developer - then you should be able to simply place a rectangle with no filling, and a border with the desired colour and thickness on each page - and make it as big as the page itself - and this should do the trick.

You should be able to do that with a simple JS.

Best,
Stefan

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Hi, I thought there is any SDK function to frame e.g. a new page that contents an area cropped from an original document. I don't use JavaScript, only C#.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hi relapse,

You can execute JS code inside the Viewer AX - and you can call that from your C# code
Please check the examples in
C:\Program Files\Tracker Software\PDF-XChange Viewer SDK\Examples\C#Examples\JavaScript

And the full set of JS commands you can find here:
JavaScript for Acrobat API Reference

Best,
Stefan

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Sorry, I can't find the appropriate JS function with that you drew that nice rect in your file

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello relapse,

Actually - I created the sample file manually using the end user Viewer, but here is a script that will add a border rectangle on an A4 page. If your pages are with different dimensions you will need to calculate the rectangle size in points yourself before calling this script:

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var annot = this.addAnnot({
    page: 0,
    type: "Square",
    author: "Stefan Dzhukelov",
    name: "border rect",
    rect: [0,0,595.275,841.889],
    width: 20
})

Best,
Stefan

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Sorry, I knew a similar example, I didn't think that an annotation could be used as a graphical figure.

I tried your code but i got the border frame displaced (see the file below).

displaced_border.zip

The rect do has a right size but it's placed wrong. His is my code:

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object w, h;
ctrl.GetDocumentProperty(_documentId, "Pages[0].Width", out w, 0);
ctrl.GetDocumentProperty(_documentId, "Pages[0].Height", out h, 0);
double dW = Convert.ToDouble(w);
double dH = Convert.ToDouble(h);
string sResult;   
        
string sJavaScipt = "this.addAnnot({page: 0, type: \"Square\", author: \"Your Name\", name: \"myStamp\", rect: [0, 0, " + dW.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) + ", " + dH.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) + "], width: 2})";

try
{
    ctrl.RunJavaScript(sJavaScipt, out sResult, 0, 0);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    ShowErrorMessage(System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetHRForException(ex));
    return;
}

I have to drag the rect one time, then it is placed properly. I think it's the point in the left lower corner of the whole page and not of the selection.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello relapse,

Yes - the script as given in my previous post is using as (0,0) the lower left corner of the whole page - so you will need to calculate the appropriate offset based on where your selected text is.

Best,
Stefan

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Thanx, it works!

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Great to hear!

Best,
Stefan