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PdfInteractiveFormNeedAppearances Property

(Optional; deprecated in PDF 2.0) A flag specifying whether to construct appearance streams and appearance dictionaries for all widget annotations in the document (see 12.7.3.3, "Variable text").

Default value: .


Namespace: SautinSoft.Pdf.Forms
Assembly: SautinSoft.Pdf (in SautinSoft.Pdf.dll) Version: 2025.11.10
Syntax
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public bool NeedAppearances { get; }

Property Value

Boolean
A flag specifying whether to construct appearance streams and appearance dictionaries for all widget annotations in the document.
Remarks

A PDF writer shall include this key, with a value of , if it has not provided appearance streams for all visible widget annotations present in the document.

Note  Note
Appearance streams are required in PDF 2.0.
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