An Update:
As above the PDAnnotGetSubtype returns the subtype as Redact so it should indeed be a Redaction annotation.
My PDRedactionGetProps(annot, redactionProps); ;returns false
My PDRedactionGetProps(annot, &redactionProps); also returns false
My question is why doesn't this work. Is it something wrong with my PDF. I just create a blank PDF. Then I go to Advanced -> Redaction- > Mark for redaction and draw my box somewhere on the page and give it an overlay text and then save the PDF.
I then run my plugin against this PDF and the about returns false.
Is my variable annot wrong? I get it by going:
PDAnnot annot;
annot = PDGetAnnot(page, i2++)
Full code is this:
#include "PDExpT.h"
#include "PIHeaders.h"
#include "redax.h"
#include <functional>
#include <iostream>
void RedaxReports( TCHAR * path ) {
PDDoc myPDDoc = getDocument(path);
PDPage page;
ASInt32 i,i2;
PDAnnot annot;
char* ptr;
char buf[200];
ASAtom atom;
//Iterate through the PDF document page by page
for (i = 0; i < PDDocGetNumPages(myPDDoc); i ++)
{
//Get each page within the document
page = PDDocAcquirePage(myPDDoc, i);
//Get each annotation on the page
for (i2 = 0; i2 < PDPageGetNumAnnots(page); i2++)
{
//Get a specific annotation
annot = PDPageGetAnnot(page,i2);
if (PDAnnotIsValid(annot))
{
//Display subtype information about the annotation
if(PDAnnotGetSubtype(annot) == ASAtomFromString("Redact")){
atom = PDAnnotGetSubtype(annot);
//Cast the ASAtom object to a character pointer
ptr = (char*) ASAtomGetString(atom);
sprintf(buf, "The annotation’s subtype is %s", ptr);
AVAlertNote (buf);
try{
PDRedactParamsRec redactionProps; //Have also tried PDRedactParams redactionProps
if(PDRedactionGetProps(annot, &redactionProps)){ //Then put PDRedactionGetProps(annot, redactionProps) still returns false
sprintf(buf, "Returns True");
AVAlertNote (buf);
}
else
{
sprintf(buf, "Returns False");
AVAlertNote (buf);
}
}
catch (std::exception &cException){
AVAlertNote("ERROR");
AVAlertNote (cException.what());
}
}
}
}
}
}//RedaxReports
