Annotations
Use a PdfDocument
object's AnnotationManager
, along with the AnnotationOptions
class, to add "sticky note"-style annotations to specified pages of a PDF document.
Create a text-based annotation at a given location on a page by specifying the text and the cartesian (x,y) coordinates as arguments in an AnnotationOption
constructor, as shown in the code example above. Next, invoke the addTextAnnotation
method on the AnnotationManager
to add the annotation to the desired page in the working PDF document.
Additional methods on every AnnotationOptions
object enable developers to customize an annotation's appearance and behavior. In the above code example, we set its opacity and featured icon, as well as set it to not be editable or printable. Developers can also change the color, height, and title of an annotation, as well as its title, subject, content, and location.
Steps to create Annotation in PDF using Java
- Install Java library to add annotations to PDF
- Utilize
PdfDocument
class to load existing PDF file in Java - Create and customize annotations with
AnnotationOptions
class - Use
addTextAnnotation
to add annotations to specific pages of PDF - Export PDF document containing annotations