Are you calling writer.addAnnotation(annot)? Best Regards, Paulo Soares
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Christoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 10:31 PM > To: Paulo Soares; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Annotations vs Notes > > I can't seem to get the annotation to appear on the page. This is > what I'm doing: > > PdfAnnotation.createText(writer, new Rectangle(200, 200, 250, 250), > "title", "message", true, "Note"); > > Do I need to do anything else here? (Obviously I've created the > writer before hand.) > > Basicaly I'm trying to replace the following line: > > document.add(new Annotation("title", "message", 200, 200, 250, 250 > )); > > Thanks. > > --- Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. 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