Programmatically add a file attachment to an open PDF

[bmills]

Hi all,

I have been looking for a way to programmatically add a file attachment to an open PDF document in the viewer within a vb6 developed application.

The code below works fine for an interactive mode where a common Windows dialogue is triggered allowing a user to select a file. However I haven’t been able to find documentation or examples of passing a file path and file name of the attachment and have the attachment added without user intervention.

Thanks in advance for any ideas, documentation, or examples


Dim vdatain, vdataout
vdatain = 33815
vdataout = Empty
Call CoPDFXCview1.DoVerb("", "ExecuteCommand", vdatain, vdataout, PXCVA_Flags.PXCVA_NoUI)

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi Bill,

nice to see the post working now. Someone from the dev team will look at this soon,

regards

[Vasyl - PDF-XChange]

Hi Bill,

Unfortunately, but no way for this.
Attachment cannot be added programmatically into pdf.

We can improve this feature in the new version.

Best
Regards.

[bmills]

Ok too bad. This ability would be useful in a newer version.

The custom application currently monitors a folder for files which have been contributed by users. These files need to be linked to already existing pdf files. If the newly contributed file is a pdf, then the process automatically appends the pages to the existing pdf without user intervention. If the newly contributed file is not a pdf, I would like to automatically add the file to the list of attachments in the pdf file without user intervention.

Thanks

[Vasyl - PDF-XChange]

We can add this feature into the next build.
This feature will probably have syntax like:
DoDocumentVerb(docId, NULL, "AddAttachment", dataIn(filename), NULL, 0);
Please wait for the new build.