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How to Add Attachments to your PDFs with Foxit PDF SDK (Objective-C)
Foxit PDF SDK for Mac
With Foxit PDF SDK, attachments refer to documents rather than file attachment annotations. This allows whole files to be embedded in a document, much like email attachments. PDF SDK provides application APIs to access functions such as loading attachments, getting attachments, inserting/removing attachments, and accessing properties of attachments.
Example:
How to export the embedded attachment file from a PDF and save it as a single file
#include "FSPDFObjC.h"...FSAttachments *attachments = [[FSAttachments alloc] initWithDoc:doc nametree:[[FSPDFNameTree alloc] init]];int count = [attachments getCount];for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
NSString *key = [attachments getKey:i];
FSFileSpec *file_spec = [attachments getEmbeddedFile:key];
if (![file_spec isEmpty]) {
NSString *name = [file_spec getFileName]; if ([file_spec isEmbedded]) {
NSString *exFilePath = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@%@", output_directory, name];
bool bExportStatus = [file_spec exportToFile:exFilePath]; } }}How to remove all the attachments of a PDF
#include "FSPDFObjC.h"...// Assuming FSPDFDoc doc has been loaded.FSAttachments *attachments = [[FSAttachments alloc] initWithDoc:doc nametree:[[FSPDFNameTree alloc] init]];[attachments removeAllEmbeddedFiles]; ...