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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Text;
using Bytescout.PDF;

namespace HelloWorld
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Create main PDF Doc Engine
PDFDocEngine engine = new PDFDocEngine("", "");

// Add new document
Document document = engine.AddDocument();

// Append new page to the document
Page page = document.AddPage(PageSizeType.A3, PageOrientationType.LandScape);

// Create new drawing
Drawing drawing = page.AddDrawing();

// Add standard font
uint font = document.AddFontStandard(StandardFontType.Courier, FontEncodingType.WinAnsi);

// font size constant
const int fontSize = 50;

// Set Active Font
drawing.SetActiveFont(font, fontSize, false, false);

// get text width
double textWidth = drawing.GetTextWidth("Click me to open external PDF");

// X position of the text to draw
const int textX = 100;
// Y position of the text to draw
const int textY = 150;

// Draw Text
drawing.PlaceText(textX, textY, 0, "Click me to open external PDF");

// Closing drawing on the page
drawing.Close();

// create a struct holding information about position of the linked text in external PDF
DestinationInfo destInfo = new DestinationInfo();
destInfo.PageIndex = 2; // set index of the page to show in external PDF document
destInfo.Type = DestinationType.FitPage; // set default view mode for external PDF
// create Destination object to use in action to implement a link
Destination linkDest = new Destination(document, destInfo, true, true);

// create new action opening external remote document
ActionGoToRemote actionLink = new ActionGoToRemote(document, "PDFs//ExternalPDF.pdf", linkDest, true /* in new window or not*/);

// create a rectangle holding information about link position
Rectangle rectLink = new Rectangle();
rectLink.Left = textX;
rectLink.Right = textX + textWidth;
// IMPORTANT: Y coordinate scale for annotations, links, actions etc is INVERTED (due to PDF format nature) and calculating as 0 point at left-bottom and maximum at left-top
rectLink.Top = drawing.Height - textY; // so we calculate RectLink.top = height - offset from top
rectLink.Bottom = rectLink.Top-fontSize; // so we calculate rectLink.bottom as inverted

// set new link to the given rectanlge assigning an action opening external PDF
AnnotationLink Link = new AnnotationLink(page, rectLink, actionLink, HighlightingModeType.Invert, false /* set to true to show rectangle for the link in the document*/);

// Save document
document.Save("TestLinkToExternalPDF.pdf");

// open in default PDF viewer application in Windows
Process.Start("TestLinkToExternalPDF.pdf");

}
}
}

Download example source code: bytescoutpdf_link_in_text_to_open_external_pdf.zip (22 KB)

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