How to create a Sound (Audio) Annotations in PDF document

 

PDF documents can contain annotations that appear on a page but are not considered to be part of the page content.

You can use PDF Creator Pilot to add a pre-recorded WAV or AIFF files as a comment or to record and place an audio comment in a document. Audio attachments appear in the Comments list and can be played back on any platform. However, the appropriate hardware and software for playing audio files must be installed.

To make the attachment viewable in Acrobat, do one of the following:

1. Click the Annotations button in the navigation pane, and select Show Annotations By Default from the Options menu (selected by default).
2. Choose File -> Properties, click the Initial View tab, choose Annotations Panel And Page from the Show menu, and click OK.

For adding sound annotations in a PDF, use the " AddUnicodeSoundAnnotation " method. There are five parameters in the method. See a description of the parameters below:

1. x - X coordinate of the top-left corner of the bounding rectangle
2. y - Y coordinate of the top-left corner of the bounding rectangle
3. title - Unicode title of the annotation
4. contents - Unicode contents of the annotation
5. filePath - Path to the sound file to embed in the PDF file

 

Download Sample PDF with Sounds Annotations

PDFWithSoundAnnotation.pdf (141Kb)

 

Download Sample Code for PDF Creator Pilot

Sound Annotations in a PDF for C++ (248Kb)

Sound Annotations in a PDF for C# (247Kb)

Sound Annotations in a PDF for VB.Net (252Kb)

 

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