PdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument(String) Method

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Appends a PDF document located at the specified path to the end of the current document starting from the new page.

Namespace : DevExpress.Pdf

Assembly : DevExpress.Docs.v25.2.dll

NuGet Package : DevExpress.Document.Processor

Declaration

• C#
• VB.NET

public void AppendDocument(
    string path
)

Public Sub AppendDocument(
    path As String
)

Parameters

A String value, specifying the location of the appended document.

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Remarks

All additional content (interactive forms, bookmarks,hyperlinks, file attachments, etc.) of the appended document is copied to the resulting file.

This example illustrates how to use the PDF Document API component to merge pages of two separate PDF documents into a single PDF document.

View Example

• Program.cs
• Program.vb

using DevExpress.Pdf;

using (PdfDocumentProcessor pdfDocumentProcessor = new PdfDocumentProcessor()) {
    pdfDocumentProcessor.CreateEmptyDocument("..\\..\\docs\\Merged.pdf");
    pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\\..\\docs\\TextMerge1.pdf");
    pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\\..\\docs\\TextMerge2.pdf");             
}

Imports DevExpress.Pdf

Using pdfDocumentProcessor As New PdfDocumentProcessor()
    pdfDocumentProcessor.CreateEmptyDocument("..\..\docs\Merged.pdf")
    pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\..\docs\TextMerge1.pdf")
    pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\..\docs\TextMerge2.pdf")
End Using

Related GitHub Examples

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• C#
• VB.NET

pdf-document-api-merge-multiple-documents/CS/PdfMergeExample/Program.cs#L14

pdfDocumentProcessor.CreateEmptyDocument("Merged.pdf");
pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\\..\\..\\docs\\TextMerge1.pdf");
pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\\..\\..\\docs\\TextMerge2.pdf");

pdf-document-api-merge-multiple-documents/VB/PdfMergeExample/Program.vb#L10

pdfDocumentProcessor.CreateEmptyDocument("Merged.pdf")
pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\..\docs\TextMerge1.pdf")
pdfDocumentProcessor.AppendDocument("..\..\docs\TextMerge2.pdf")

See Also

PdfDocumentProcessor Class

PdfDocumentProcessor Members

DevExpress.Pdf Namespace