PDF Annotations associate an object such as a note, sound, or movie with a location on a page of a PDF document, or provides a way to interact with the user by means of the mouse and keyboard. There are many different types of annotations and a few different states that they can exist in.
Questions tagged [pdf-annotations]
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How to show annotations in a pdf using pdfium viewer?
I am using PDfiumViewer winform control to display pdfs. And, I have added some annotations to the pdf, but those do not show up in the pdfviewer control.So, how can achieve this?

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PDFAnnotationText is not displaying pop-up on 10.12
PDFAnnotationText is not showing pop-up on macOS sierra 10.12.1 Beta (16B2548a). PDFAnnotationText is deprecated on 10.12 but new APIs are not drawing annotations.
Old APIs:
// display the PDF document
[m_pdfView setDocument: [self…

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Add pdf annotation with PDF Kit in OS 10.12
Now the latest os10.12 operating system, PDF annotation can be displayed, but now I still have a problem, I recorded coordinate information in PDFView ->mouseDragged before, and then automatically will invoke the PDFView->drawPage function, this…

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Displaying pdf files using the PDFKit interface
I am working on a Mac OS 10.12, and have an application to display pdf files using the PDFKit interface.
But I encountered the following issues
Set pdf document to PDFView, in original OS,e.g. OS10.11 , there will invoke PDFView->drawPage()…

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How to draw smooth ink annotation on PDF in iOS using Objective-C
I am drawing ink annotation in pdf using objective-c. Pdf specifications say that we need to provide an array of points for the ink drawing. I am using PoDoFo library.
This is how I am drawing ink annotation currently:
PoDoFo::PdfArray arr; //This…

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iText - clickable image should open ms word attachment
How can I make an image clickable so the attached ms word document opens? I have some PDFs here where there are some images (ms word icon with the ms word file name beneath the icon) which open the attached ms word document by clicking on the images…

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Edit or remove annotations in already saved pdf with pdf.js
Is there a way to change (select, edit, remove) already saved annotations within a pdf in pdf.js?
So what i want to realize is:
Add Annotations with pdf.js to a pdf
Save the document
Reload the pdf with the saved annotations
Change these…

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How to use react-pdf annotation?
I am loading pdf by react-pdf. I have two buttons Title and Author. When the user clicks on the title button, the background of the title will change, then click on the author, and it will change all author's name background colors of the pdf…

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PDFBox2 : Acrobat consider my annotation added between two signature as modified, why ? and how to solve this?
I'm trying to do this use case:
I start with a document that contains a digital signature (our provider is using DCC https://github.com/esig/dss which is based on PDFBox...)
with PDFBox 2.0.27 I added an annotation using incremental save (I used…

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PDFView context menu event handler -- changing highlight color
I have a PDFView in an app. It allows you to highlight certain text. When you click on a highlight, the built in menu appears:
In the Preview.app, when you click one of those colors (or the remove highlight) menu item, it does what you expect…

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Resize and Rotate image Annotation added in pdf
Using this Link I have added signature image annotation in PDF file
But i could not find any guide for how to rotate and resize image annotation using the button added on top of annotation image like shown in the image.
What i want to do is:
want…

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How to avoid `circular dependencies` when loading pdfAnnotate in svelte?
I would like to use pdfAnnotate in svelte, but when I start the app, npm run dev complains about Circular dependencies. I did not find any example, how to fix this error. Could anyone explain to me what I am doing wrong, or point me to a…

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How to translate Java unicode string to PDF string object correctly using iText7?
I was looking to set PDF annotation using iText7 and encountered a problem. Unlike rest of PDF document, where you using PDF stream objects to show content - annotation can be set only with PDF string.
But it shows glyphs in microsoft edge reader…

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What are & elements in XFDF?
I am working on a RnD project focused on PDF annotating. Annotation sharing, backup, etc. I have seen this couple of lines in other XFDF creating applications.

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Write latex comments on any pdf file with option to toggle comments on and off
I am looking to take a .pdf file (for example an Arxiv paper), and add math comments using Latex / Markdown synatx onto the pdf with the option to toggle the comments on and off.
More precisely, consider for example this pdf file…

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