PDFAnnotationType Enumeration

Summary

Specifies the type of PDF annotation.

Syntax

C++/CLI

Java

Python

[SerializableAttribute()] 
public enum PDFAnnotationType

public final class PDFAnnotationType 
    extends java.lang.Enum<PDFAnnotationType>

[SerializableAttribute()] 
public enum class PDFAnnotationType

class PDFAnnotationType(Enum): 
   Note = 0 
   Text = 1 
   Line = 2 
   Rectangle = 3 
   Ellipse = 4 
   Polyline = 5 
   Polygon = 6 
   Pencil = 7 
   Highlight = 8 
   Underline = 9 
   Strikeout = 10 
   Squiggly = 11

Members

Value	Member	Description
0	Note	Note annotation
1	Text	Text annotation
2	Line	Line annotation
3	Rectangle	Rectangle annotation
4	Ellipse	Ellipse annotation
5	Polyline	Polyline annotation
6	Polygon	Polygon annotation
7	Pencil	Pencil annotation
8	Highlight	Highlight annotation
9	Underline	Underline annotation
10	Strikeout	Strikeout annotation
11	Squiggly	Squiggly annotation

Remarks

PDFAnnotationType is used as the type for the PDFAnnotation.AnnotationType property.

Each member of the PDFAnnotationType enumeration listed below can be converted from and to LEAD AnnObject annotations. Below is a table showing the mapping between an AnnObject and a PDFAnnotationType using the AnnPDFConvertor Class:

PDFAnnotationType	AnnObject
Ellipse	AnnEllipseObject
Highlight	AnnHiliteObject
Line	AnnPolyLineObject (single line)
Note	AnnStickyNoteObject
Pencil	AnnPolyLineObject (freehand style)
Polygon	AnnPolyLineObject (closed figure)
Polyline	AnnPolyLineObject (2+ lines)
Rectangle	AnnRectangleObject
Strikeout	AnnTextStrikeoutObject
Text	AnnTextObject
Text (with IntentFreeTextCallout)	AnnTextPointerObject
Underline	AnnTextUnderlineObject

Example

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Pdf; 
using Leadtools.WinForms; 
using Leadtools.Drawing; 
 
 
public void PDFHighlightAnnotationExample() 
{ 
   string pdfSrcFileName = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, @"Leadtools.pdf"); 
   string pdfDestFileName = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, @"LEAD_Annotations.pdf"); 
 
   PDFFile pdfFile = new PDFFile(pdfSrcFileName); 
   List<PDFAnnotation> Annotations = new List<PDFAnnotation>(); 
   PDFHighlightAnnotation highlight = new PDFHighlightAnnotation(); 
 
   // Add highlight points 
   highlight.Points.Add(new PDFPoint(100, 100)); 
   highlight.Points.Add(new PDFPoint(100, 200)); 
   highlight.Points.Add(new PDFPoint(200, 200)); 
   highlight.Points.Add(new PDFPoint(200, 100)); 
 
   highlight.Color = RasterColor.FromKnownColor(RasterKnownColor.YellowGreen); 
   Annotations.Add(highlight); 
 
   pdfFile.WriteAnnotations(Annotations, pdfDestFileName); 
} 
 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS22\Resources\Images"; 
}

Requirements

Target Platforms

Reference

Leadtools.Pdf Namespace

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