This Gist contains code snippets on how to retrieve and set PDF viewer preferences using Aspose.PDF Cloud SDK for Python

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Please follow the steps given below to read PDF viewer preferences of PDF file using Aspose.PDF Cloud SDK for Python.

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Control PDF Display Preferences using Python

This Gist contains code snippets on how to retrieve and set PDF viewer preferences using Aspose.PDF Cloud SDK for Python

read-pdf-display-properties.py

def readPDFDisplayProperties():
    try:
        #Client credentials
        client_secret = "1c9379bb7d701c26cc87e741a29987bb"
        client_id = "bbf94a2c-6d7e-4020-b4d2-b9809741374e"

        #initialize PdfApi client instance using client credetials
        pdf_api_client = asposepdfcloud.api_client.ApiClient(client_secret, client_id)

        # create PdfApi instance while passing PdfApiClient as argument
        pdf_api = PdfApi(pdf_api_client)

        #source PDF file
        input_file = 'PdfWithEmbeddedFiles.pdf'

        # call API to read PDF display properties using Python
        response = pdf_api.get_document_display_properties(name = input_file)
        
        # print response in console
        print(response)
        
        # print message in console (optional)
        print('PDF Display preferences successfully retrieved !')    
    except ApiException as e:
        print("Exception while calling PdfApi: {0}".format(e))
        print("Code:" + str(e.code))
        print("Message:" + e.message)

update-PDF-display-preferences.py

def updatePDFDisplayProperties():
    try:
        #Client credentials
        client_secret = "1c9379bb7d701c26cc87e741a29987bb"
        client_id = "bbf94a2c-6d7e-4020-b4d2-b9809741374e"

        #initialize PdfApi client instance using client credetials
        pdf_api_client = asposepdfcloud.api_client.ApiClient(client_secret, client_id)

        # create PdfApi instance while passing PdfApiClient as argument
        pdf_api = PdfApi(pdf_api_client)

        #source PDF file
        input_file = 'PdfWithEmbeddedFiles.pdf'
        
        # Document display properties
        newDocumentProperties = asposepdfcloud.DocumentProperties
        {
          "Links": [
            {
               "Href": '/PdfWithEmbeddedFiles.pdf/displayproperties',
                "Rel": 'self',
                "Type": None,
                "Title": None    }
          ],
          "CenterWindow": True,
          "Direction": 'L2R',
          "DisplayDocTitle": True,
          "HideMenuBar": True,
          "HideToolBar": False,
          "HideWindowUI": True,
          "NonFullScreenPageMode": 'UseOutlines',
          "PageLayout":'TwoColumnRight',
          "PageMode": 'UseThumbs'
        }

        # call API to udpate PDF display properties
        response = pdf_api.put_document_display_properties(name = input_file, display_properties=newDocumentProperties)
        
        # print response in console
        print(response)
        
        # print message in console (optional)
        print('PDF Display preferences successfully updated !')    
    except ApiException as e:
        print("Exception while calling PdfApi: {0}".format(e))
        print("Code:" + str(e.code))
        print("Message:" + e.message)