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Subject: Re: Annotations not being rendered
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:54:07 +0100
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Hi Stan,

where do you get the box (Adobe Reader, PDFBox, =85) ? What is the =
expected result you are looking for?

BR
Maruan

Am 29.03.2014 um 00:12 schrieb Stan Taylor <Stan.Taylor@j2.com>:

> Thanks!  If it's so vital, I'm surprised that the PDFBox own =
Annotation example doesn't include it... What the easiest way to set a =
default appearance that allows the annotations to display?
>=20
> I modified Annotation.java and tried creating a default appearance =
like this:
>=20
> 	PDAppearanceDictionary appearance =3D new =
PDAppearanceDictionary(new COSDictionary());
>=20
> 	... and then called setAppearance(appearance) on each of my =
PDAnnotation objects
>=20
> But this covers up the annotation's content with an opaque purple box.
>=20
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Dr=FCmmer [mailto:olaflist@callassoftware.com]=20
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 3:40 PM
> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
> Cc: Olaf Dr=FCmmer
> Subject: Re: Annotations not being rendered
>=20
> No appearance stream means no rendered appearance, unless some process =
kicks in that generates it.
>=20
> Adobe Reader does have the habit to fill certain gaps, for example if =
the appearance stream for a highlight annotation is missing, it will =
simply generate one (there were versions of Adobe Reader that even did =
this when there already was an appearance stream - Adobe Reader then =
happily created one that didn't necessarily match the one that was =
actually there).
>=20
> Olaf
>=20
>=20
> Am 28 Mar 2014 um 23:00 schrieb Stan Taylor <Stan.Taylor@j2.com>:
>=20
>> Nope; I don't see any in PDFDebugger and programmatically, =
PDAnnotation.getAppearanceStream()  and PDAnnotation.getAppearance() =
return null for all annotations obtained from the PDPage.
>>=20
>> Stan
>>=20
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Olaf Dr=FCmmer [mailto:olaflist@callassoftware.com]=20
>> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 2:48 PM
>> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
>> Cc: Olaf Dr=FCmmer
>> Subject: Re: Annotations not being rendered
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>> Do the annotations have an appearance (AP) entry?
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>> Olaf
>>=20
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>> Am 28 Mar 2014 um 21:17 schrieb "Stan Taylor" <stantayl@gmail.com>:
>>=20
>>> Is anyone else experience issues regarding annotations not being =
rendered?   Attached here are two PDF samples created from the =
/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/Annotation.java=
 example program from PDFBox 1.8.4 (stan1.pdf) and PDFBox 2.0.0 =
(stan2.pdf).
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>>> Viewing these PDFs in Adobe Reader (Windows v10), I can see the =
annotations fine, but the annotations don't show up when I use the =
PDFBox app's PDFReader feature from either version of PDFBox.  The =
annotations are likewise not visible when I render the (first and only) =
page to an image, via PDPage.convertToImage() in PDFBox 1.8.4 or via =
PDFRender. renderImageWithDPI() in PDFBox 2.0.0.
>>>=20
>>> The original problem I was investigating was why annotations created =
by another PDF package were not showing up, but now I am realizing that =
annotations generated by PDFBox's own example program don't render =
either?!
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>>> And ideas/recommendations?
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>>> Thanks,
>>> Stan
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