How to merge PDFs into a PDF Portfolio?

Question

I am looking for the functionality that creates PDF Portfolios:

The

Answer 1

Here is the simple sample to show how we can attach files to a new PDF file:

using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

namespace PDFAttachment
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using (var pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4))
            {
                var pdfWriter = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, new FileStream("Test.pdf", FileMode.Create));               
                pdfDoc.Open();

                pdfDoc.Add(new Phrase("Test"));

                var filePath = @"C:\path\logo.png";
                var fileInfo = new FileInfo(filePath);
                var pdfDictionary = new PdfDictionary();
                pdfDictionary.Put(PdfName.MODDATE, new PdfDate(fileInfo.LastWriteTime));
                var fs = PdfFileSpecification.FileEmbedded(pdfWriter, filePath, fileInfo.Name, null, true, null, pdfDictionary);
                pdfWriter.AddFileAttachment("desc.", fs);
            }

            Process.Start("Test.pdf");
        }
    }
}

Or to an existing PDF file:

using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

namespace PDFAttachment
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var reader = new PdfReader("Test.pdf");
            using (var stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileStream("newTest.pdf", FileMode.Create)))
            {
                var filePath = @"C:\path\logo.png";
                addAttachment(stamper, filePath, "desc.");
                stamper.Close();
            }

            Process.Start("newTest.pdf");
        }

        private static void addAttachment(PdfStamper stamper, string filePath, string description)
        {
            var fileInfo = new FileInfo(filePath);
            var pdfDictionary = new PdfDictionary();
            pdfDictionary.Put(PdfName.MODDATE, new PdfDate(fileInfo.LastWriteTime));
            var pdfWriter = stamper.Writer;
            var fs = PdfFileSpecification.FileEmbedded(pdfWriter, filePath, fileInfo.Name, null, true, null, pdfDictionary);
            stamper.AddFileAttachment(description, fs);
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

The term you're looking for is PDF Portfolios. You can create PDFs like this with iTextSharp. Here are a couple of C# examples from the iText book:

• Chapter16 - KubrickCollection
• Chapter16 - KubrickMovies

If you choose to download the KubrickMovies result file, change the extension to ".pdf". Just noticed it now - will try and fix the error this weekend.