Changing properties of an annotation
Examples in answer to questions such as:
movepopup
JAVA
JAVA
/**
* This example was written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to the following question:
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33609564/how-to-modify-size-for-pdfannotations-in-itext-and-disable-some-options
*/
package sandbox.annotations;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfArray;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfDictionary;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfName;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfRectangle;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfStamper;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import sandbox.WrapToTest;
/**
* @author iText
*/
@WrapToTest
public class MovePopup {
public static final String SRC = "resources/pdfs/hello_sticky_note.pdf";
public static final String DEST = "results/annotations/hello_sticky_moved.pdf";
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {
File file = new File(DEST);
file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
new MovePopup().manipulatePdf(SRC, DEST);
}
public void manipulatePdf(String src, String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(src);
PdfDictionary page = reader.getPageN(1);
PdfArray annots = page.getAsArray(PdfName.ANNOTS);
PdfDictionary sticky = annots.getAsDict(0);
PdfArray stickyRect = sticky.getAsArray(PdfName.RECT);
PdfRectangle stickyRectangle = new PdfRectangle(
stickyRect.getAsNumber(0).floatValue() - 120, stickyRect.getAsNumber(1).floatValue() -70,
stickyRect.getAsNumber(2).floatValue(), stickyRect.getAsNumber(3).floatValue() - 30
);
sticky.put(PdfName.RECT, stickyRectangle);
PdfDictionary popup = annots.getAsDict(1);
PdfArray popupRect = popup.getAsArray(PdfName.RECT);
PdfRectangle popupRectangle = new PdfRectangle(
popupRect.getAsNumber(0).floatValue() - 250, popupRect.getAsNumber(1).floatValue(),
popupRect.getAsNumber(2).floatValue(), popupRect.getAsNumber(3).floatValue() - 250
);
popup.put(PdfName.RECT, popupRectangle);
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream(dest));
stamper.close();
}
}