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How to merge PDFs into a PDF Portfolio?


I am looking for the functionality that creates PDF Portfolios:

Multiple PDFs packaged into one

The image shows the free adobe reader that can be downloaded from Adobe (duh!). When I open this particular PDF, I was surprised that it has all these Layout, Files and Attachment features. It is definitely not the normal "PDF merge". It is more like a package with multiple PDFs.

Can itextsharp do this? What is the search term for this PDF functionality?


Solution

  • 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:

    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.