Hi Maruan, So you're saying there's no way to get it working currently? That's a real shame... I hope it's on the To-Do List. Thanks for letting me know anyway.
Gilad On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 4:36 PM Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Gilad, > > at this point in time PDFBox doesn't support the appearance generation for > rich text (neither for annotations nor for form fields). > > Sorry to be of no better help. > > With kind regards > Maruan > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm working on a project where I need to edit the contents of a > "FreeText" > > comment (an arrow with a text box attached to it). I was trying for a > while > > to do it by using the setContents method but that made no difference, > when > > I recalled that this kind of annotation has a Rich Contents value > > (basically an XML string), so I tried to edit that one instead. The > results > > were mixed, so I'm asking for help... > > > > First of all, PDAnnotationMarkup has no getter/setter for this property, > so > > maybe that should be added. It's just a string that is saved under > > COSName.RC. It can be called something like getRichContents(String s) and > > setRichContents(), I think. > > > > Instead of parsing the XML string I just did a straight-forward search & > > replace on the string, which updates the value correctly, but the > > appearance of the comment remains the same (ie. it's still showing the > old > > value, even though it's nowhere to be found in the COS Dictionary), as > can > > be seen from the screenshot in the shared folder. > > Is there a way to force an update of the comment's appearance on the > page, > > like can be done with fields? > > > > A code sample, as well as the original and edited files, and the > screenshot > > mentioned above can be found here: > > > https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u1mBP5IePF_Kt6bT4ggvflmbq58UQvNY?usp=sharing > > > > I'm using PDFBox 2.0.21 on Windows 7 in Eclipse 4.2.2. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > Gilad > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
