Hi Tilman, Thank you for the quick fix. I've downloaded the latest snapshot of 2.0.36 (pdfbox-2.0.36-20251125.095157-69). Now the proper width is passed through to the PDAnnotation we create from the FDFAnnotation and the resulting appearance in the document is correct, namely, "no border". I thereby conclude the FDFAnnotation is initialized correctly.
Thank you very much, Kai ________________________________ From: Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2025 15:49 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Question about FDFAnnotation(Element element), possible bug Hi, Yes you're right, please create a ticket. If possible, add test files. Tilman Am 24.11.2025 um 15:22 schrieb Kai Keg͏͏ [Graymail]<https://summary.eu1.defend.egress.com/v3/summary?ref=email&crId=692470af5716863af664f14e&lang=en> Graymail<https://summary.eu1.defend.egress.com/v3/summary?ref=email&crId=692470af5716863af664f14e&lang=en> [Graymail]<https://summary.eu1.defend.egress.com/v3/summary?ref=email&crId=692470af5716863af664f14e&lang=en> [External email]<https://summary.eu1.defend.egress.com/v3/summary?ref=email&crId=692470af5716863af664f14e&lang=en> External email<https://summary.eu1.defend.egress.com/v3/summary?ref=email&crId=692470af5716863af664f14e&lang=en> [External email]<https://summary.eu1.defend.egress.com/v3/summary?ref=email&crId=692470af5716863af664f14e&lang=en> Hi, Yes you're right, please create a ticket. If possible, add test files. Tilman Am 24.11.2025 um 15:22 schrieb Kai Keggenhoff: > Hi everyone. > > We are importing annotations in XFDF format via PDFBox into PDF documents. > We observed a discrepancy for text annotations exported from Foxit and > imported into a PDF when viewed with Adobe Reader regarding the border of > such annotations. > > When I look at the code of the FDFAnnotation(Element element) constructor, > the "width" attribute is parsed and its value set in the newly created > PDBorderStyleDictionary object. (lines 258-262 in 2.0.35, lines 254-258 in > 3.0.6). > > A sample annotation in XFDF starts like this > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <xfdf xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/"; xml:space="preserve"> > <annots> > <freetext > width="0.00" > justification="left" > ... > > In this case, the parsed value for "width" is "0" and set in the border style > object. > Next, this value is read and compared to ">0" to update border style, effect, > dashes and so forth. > However, the border style is only updated in the annotation object when the > border width is ">0". > > So I'm taking a guess here, but I think the line > > setBorderStyle(borderStyle); > > should be outside of the ">0" block so that the border is always set and the > width doesn't default to "1" when that FDFAnnotation is used to produce a > PDAnnotation. > > Please let me know if I should raise an issue in JIRA for this. > > Thanks in advance, > > Kai > > <https://thinkproject.com/de/> > > *Kai Keggenhoff* / Senior Software Developer > > *thinkproject.com > <https://thinkproject.com/de>**<https://thinkproject.com/de>* > > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/thinkproject-dach/posts/?feedView=all><https://twitter.com/thinkproject_> > > Read our legal information (imprint) here > <https://thinkproject.com/de/impressum/>. >
