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I am starting to work using dynamic annotations in our web based work flow tool. The intent is to allow users to open the PDF documents (drawings in this case) and have the server add annotations that reflect current updates about the some of information in the document. I know that annotations can be added using FDF, and while we haven't used the FDF toolkit for our web server work up until now, given the added complexity of annotations, I figured I would revisit it to see if there was API level support for creating annotations, like there is for fields. I've searched through the documentation, but I can't see any support for them. Can anybody point me in the right direction, or do I have to build the annotations myself? (I am using Perl on the server, and I am working with the 5.0 toolkit). Another novice question about the FDF toolkit ... If I add create the FDF file using the toolkit, is there a simple way to add an annotation dictionary to the file without having to re-parse the results generated by the toolkit , using code outside of the toolkit? In other words, if I create the dictionary using my own Perl code, and I create the FDF data using the toolkit, the only way I can see to add this dictionary to the FDF data is to save the FDF data to a local file then reopen the file, and insert the dictionary in myself (w/o using the toolkit). I can't see another way of doing this. Does any of this make sense? rob cairns -------------------------------------------------------------- THIS MESSAGE IS ONLY INTENDED FOR THE USE OF THE INTENDED RECIPIENT(S) AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, PROPRIETARY AND/OR CONFIDENTIAL. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, copying, conversion to hard copy or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient and have received this message in error, please notify me by return e-mail and delete this message from your system. Ontario Power Generation Inc. To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
