It can be done with iText but only if creating the annotation with PdfAnnotation.createText(). In this case you can change the icon to one of: Comment, Key, Note, Help, NewParagraph, Paragraph or Insert.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Christoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 21:33 Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Annotations vs Notes > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
