> The icon displayed in the PDF is actually user-selectable. > If you > right/control-click on ANY comment/note/annotation and then choose > "Properties" you can then pick from a selection of icons to use. > > I believe that iText uses one that simulate the "default" > Acrobat > value - but you can actually use ANY graphic...
I would like to have the default icon be the yellow bubble. Can I do this through itext, or would I have to go through the pdf by hand and and change each of the icons? > Sure you can! There is a nice big button called > "Commenting" in > your Acrobat toolbar - at least in Standard and Professional. (not > in > Reader...) I realized this button was there, but what I was referring to was what I thought was an annotation (now know this is just the default icon for a comment). Thanks Again. --- Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:49 PM 6/4/2004, Mike Christoff wrote: > >I noticed that in Acrobat 6.0 (possibly earlier versions, but I > only > >have 6.0) that you can add something called a "note" (looks like a > >yellow thought bubble). > > Commenting and Annotating (same thing) have been in > Acrobat since > version 4, though only with 5 & 6 have Adobe really pushed it as a > feature. The Note is just one of about 10 different types of > annotations/comments that you can apply to a PDF. > > > >I looked through the itext api, but all I > >could find was something called an "annotation". These seem to do > >very similar things. In fact they seem almost identical, except > that > >the icon for an annotation is a little white tab, whereas the icon > >for a note is the yellow bubble. > > The icon displayed in the PDF is actually user-selectable. > If you > right/control-click on ANY comment/note/annotation and then choose > "Properties" you can then pick from a selection of icons to use. > > I believe that iText uses one that simulate the "default" > Acrobat > value - but you can actually use ANY graphic... > > > >Also, I noticed that you can't actually create a annotation with > >Acrobat 6.0. > > Sure you can! There is a nice big button called > "Commenting" in > your Acrobat toolbar - at least in Standard and Professional. (not > in > Reader...) > > > Leonard > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Leonard Rosenthol > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Chief Technical Officer > <http://www.pdfsages.com> > PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) > 215-938-0880 (fax) > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
