PDF/A is widely used for long term archiving for PDF format. By using Spire.PDF, you can create PDF/A file directly. This article mainly shows how to set up PDF/A file; it will also demonstrate how to add image and insert hyperlink to image in C#.
Make sure Spire.PDF for .NET (version 2.9.43 or above) has been installed correctly and then add Spire.Pdf.dll as reference in the downloaded Bin folder though the below path: "..\Spire.Pdf\Bin\NET4.0\ Spire.Pdf.dll".
Here comes to the steps:
Step 1: Create a PDF/A document.
// create a PDF/A document and add contents to it
PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument(PdfConformanceLevel.Pdf_A1B);
PdfPageBase page = document.Pages.Add();
page.Canvas.DrawString("Hello World", new PdfFont(PdfFontFamily.Helvetica, 30f), new PdfSolidBrush(Color.Black), 10, 10);
Step 2: Load an image from file and insert to the PDF.
//insert an image PdfImage image = PdfImage.FromFile(@"D:\PDF.png");
Step 3: Add a hyper link to the image.
//Add a link to image PointF location = new PointF(100, 100); RectangleF linkBounds = new RectangleF(location, new SizeF(image.Width, image.Height)); Spire.Pdf.Annotations.PdfUriAnnotation link = new Spire.Pdf.Annotations.PdfUriAnnotation(linkBounds, "http://www.e-iceblue.com/Introduce/pdf-for-net-introduce.html"); link.Border = new PdfAnnotationBorder(0); page.Canvas.DrawImage(image, linkBounds); page.AnnotationsWidget.Add(link);
Step 4: Save the PDF document.
//Save the document to file in PDF format
document.SaveToFile("PDFA.pdf");
Effective screenshot:
