Hi, Thanks for your kind reply.
But, i dont want annotation. I want to inherit the annotation feature. Like, If i draw rectangle with color, so i will be able to set the color opacity & text behind the rectangle should display. On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Andreas Lehmkuehler <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > Am 20.01.2011 08:11, schrieb prashant mangate: > > Hi, >> >> >> I want to draw the rectangle on a existing PDF as a highlighter. >> >> Existing PDF contains the table. and I want to highlight its cell by using >> following code. But it display over the cell. It should looks like >> transperent. (i.e highlighter) >> >> contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(Color.pink); >> contentStream.addRect(startX, startY+startY, width, height); >> contentStream.fillRect(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f); >> > I guess your are looking for a Text markup Annotation. [1] provides some > samples > for different types of annotations. > Have a look at chapter 12.5.6 Annotations types from [2] to learn more > about > annotations. > > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler > > [1] > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/trunk/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/Annotation.java > [2] > http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf > > -- Thanks & regards Prashant Mangate (プロシャント・マングテ) Software Engineer Softbridge Solutions (India) Pvt Ltd Unit #103, Tower #S4 Cybercity Magarpatta City, Hadapsar, Pune 411028 Mobile: (91) 9421685015 Email: [email protected] URL: www.softbridge-s.com
