Did you have any luck with this, James? On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, James <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has had any experience working with Replacement > Text annotations with PDFBox. I am currently working on a project which > involves, in part, transferring annotations from one PDF to another. The > PDFs are actually the same PDF, the only difference is in the annotations. > I am having an issue when it comes to Replacement Text annotations, because > they come up in PDFBox as type PDAnnotationUnknown and when copied over, > the > only thing which is copied is the text. The popup is lost as well as the > line which crosses out the text which the annoter (is that a word?) intends > the text to be a replacement of. > > In contrast, everything works great with annotations created using the > regular Note Tool. For each note PDFBox finds 2 annotations, one of type > PDAnnotationText, which is the actual comment and one of PDAnnotationPopup > which is the popup that the text is contained in. In addition, you can > easily find the relation between these two annotations by using getParent > from PDAnnotationPopup or getPopup from PDAnnotationText. For Replacement > Text annotations, only a single annotation is found by PDFBox, of type > PDAnnotationUnknown. > > Any information anyone can provide on this would be appreciated. My only > thought is that perhaps this is a newer feature which is not really > supported by PDFBox yet. >
