13–18 -exportAnnotsToFDF: Exporting Annotations to FDF

13–18–1 Processing

Exports markup annotations in the input file as an FDF file.

Note:
Only markup annotations can be exported. For example, link annotations cannot be exported. For details on the type of each annotation and whether it is a markup annotation, see PDF Reference Version 1.7 "8.4.5 Annotation Types" or ISO 32000-1/ 32000-2 "12.5.6 Annotation Types."

13–18–2 Example of commands

[Executing example commands]

Extracts the markup annotations on the pages of test.pdf and export them to out.fdf.

[Windows]

AHPDFToolCmd80.exe -exportAnnotsToFDF C:\sav\out.fdf -d C:\test\test.pdf

[Linux]

AHPDFToolCmd80 -exportAnnotsToFDF /home/antenna/sav/out.fdf -d /home/antenna/test/test.pdf

13–18–3 Folder settings: applied

You can perform batch processing by specifying the input folder to the -d parameter and the output folder to the -o parameter. Outputs markup annotations of PDF files in the input folder to FDF files. Outputs to the output folder with a file name that changes the extension of the input file name to ".fdf."

13–18–4 Parameters

Parameter
Content
[outFilePath]
Sets the full path of the FDF file to output.
If the extension of the specified file name is not "fdf", "fdf" is added when the command line outputs it.