Purpose: Long-term archiving of electronic documents with full semantic structure.
Level "1a" ensures:
Tagged PDF (with proper logical structure and reading order)
Unicode text for proper text extraction and searchability
Embedded fonts (for consistent rendering)
Restrictions:
No audio/video
No encryption
No JavaScript
No external content (everything must be self-contained)
Based on: PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5)
Error message:
System.InvalidCastException: 'Unable to cast object of type 'Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Elements.Forms.FormFieldsTree' to type 'Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Types.PdfArray'.'Error message:
System.InvalidCastException: 'Unable to cast object of type 'Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Types.PdfArray' to type 'Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Elements.Functions.FunctionObject'.'Introduce Sanitize Document functionality.
https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/document-cloud-learn/acrobat-learning/advanced-tasks/redact
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/removing-sensitive-content-pdfs.html
For instance, we may implement WritePageAsync method in addition to the existing WritePage method. This is a similar scenario as in System.IO.StreamWriter class which has WriteLine and WriteLineAsync methods.
The PDF/A-1 standard uses the PDF Reference 1.4 and specifies two levels of compliance:
- PDF/A-1b - Its goal is to ensure reliable reproduction of the visual appearance of the document.
- PDF/A-1a - Its objective is to ensure that documents content can be searched and re-purposed. This compliance level has some additional requirements:
Since the PdfProcessing and its PdfFormatProvider is compliant with the PDF Reference 1.7. , the produced documents are created with this version as well:
using Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Streaming;
using Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.Model.Editing;
using Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.Model.InteractiveForms;
using Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.Model;
using Telerik.Documents.Primitives;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Reflection.Metadata;
using Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf;
namespace _1681158PdfInputFields
{
internal class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
ExportExamplePdfForm();
}
public static void ExportExamplePdfForm()
{
RadFixedDocument fixedDoc = new RadFixedDocument();
RadFixedPage fixedPage = fixedDoc.Pages.AddPage();
FixedContentEditor editor = new FixedContentEditor(fixedPage);
editor.Position.Translate(100, 100);
TextBoxField textBox = new TextBoxField("textBox");
fixedDoc.AcroForm.FormFields.Add(textBox);
textBox.Value = "Sample text...";
Size widgetDimensions = new Size(200, 30);
DrawNextWidgetWithDescription(editor, "TextBox", (e) => e.DrawWidget(textBox, widgetDimensions));
string fileName = "output.pdf";
File.Delete(fileName);
// File.WriteAllBytes(fileName, new PdfFormatProvider().Export(fixedDoc, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(15)));
string ResultFileName = "result.pdf";
File.Delete(ResultFileName);
using (PdfStreamWriter writer = new PdfStreamWriter(File.OpenWrite(ResultFileName)))
{
foreach (RadFixedPage page in fixedDoc.Pages)
{
writer.WritePage(page);
}
}
ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo()
{
FileName = ResultFileName,
UseShellExecute = true
};
Process.Start(psi);
Console.WriteLine("Document created.");
}
private static void DrawNextWidgetWithDescription(FixedContentEditor editor, string description, Action<FixedContentEditor> drawWidgetWithEditor)
{
double padding = 20;
drawWidgetWithEditor(editor);
Size annotationSize = editor.Root.Annotations[editor.Root.Annotations.Count - 1].Rect.Size;
double x = editor.Position.Matrix.OffsetX;
double y = editor.Position.Matrix.OffsetY;
Block block = new Block();
block.TextProperties.FontSize = 20;
block.VerticalAlignment = Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.Model.Editing.Flow.VerticalAlignment.Center;
block.InsertText(description);
editor.Position.Translate(x + annotationSize.Width + padding, y);
editor.DrawBlock(block, new Size(editor.Root.Size.Width, annotationSize.Height));
editor.Position.Translate(x, y + annotationSize.Height + padding);
}
}
}