Prevent move Annotation from other author

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mb77
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Prevent move Annotation from other author

Post by mb77 » Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:02 pm

Hi,

I have a customer requirement with annotations. PDF documents are edited by multiple users and only the author should by able to edit, move, rotate etc. his own annotations.
I use the Author-property to identify the user and in case of StickyNotes I can call HideTextEditBox within the AnnotationStartEditingText-Eventhandler to prevent changing the text.

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	public void gdviewer_AnnotationStartEditingText(int annotationIdx)
        {
            //editieren darf nur der Autor
            if (annotationIdx != -1 && gdviewer.GetAnnotationFromIdx(annotationIdx).Author != Environment.UserName)
                gdviewer.HideTextEditBox(false);    
        }
But now I have no idea to prevent rotating or moving annotations. Is it possible? To burn the annotations is no option, because the author can get the document back and must be able to edit his own annotations again.

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Re: Prevent move Annotation from other author

Post by Loïc » Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:44 pm

Hi, yes is is possible. Just alter the properties CanMode, CanRotate, CanEdit... of the desired annotations. You can iterate through all available annotations by using an AnnotationManager object.

Please let us know if you need further information.

With best regards,

Loïc

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