//
// This code is part of Document Solutions for PDF demos.
// Copyright (c) MESCIUS inc. All rights reserved.
//
using System.IO;
using GrapeCity.Documents.Pdf;
using GrapeCity.Documents.Pdf.AcroForms;
namespace DsPdfWeb.Demos
{
// This sample shows how to find and remove signature fields from a PDF.
// The code in this sample is almost identical to the code in RemoveSignatures,
// which also finds all signature fields, but removes just the signatures,
// leaving the fields.
// The PDF used in this sample was created by TimeSheet.
public class RemoveSignatureFields
{
public int CreatePDF(Stream stream)
{
var doc = new GcPdfDocument();
using (var fs = File.OpenRead(Path.Combine("Resources", "PDFs", "TimeSheet.pdf")))
{
doc.Load(fs);
// Fields can be children of other fields, so we use
// a recursive method to iterate through the whole tree:
removeSignatureFields(doc.AcroForm.Fields);
// Done:
doc.Save(stream);
return doc.Pages.Count;
void removeSignatureFields(FieldCollection fields)
{
for (int i = fields.Count - 1; i >= 0; --i)
{
removeSignatureFields(fields[i].Children);
// Note: if we just wanted to remove the signature
// without removing the field itself, we would do:
// ((SignatureField)fields[i]).Value = null;
if (fields[i] is SignatureField)
fields.RemoveAt(i);
}
}
}
}
}
}