tilman would it be alright to open an issue ticket in jira for this? would like to track its status in case you guys decide to make code for an appearance stream for markup.
this is the only kind of well known annotatation type left that does not show because it has no appearance. the rest you guys have provided sample code and are very much appreciated. On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 5:16 PM, chitgoks <chitg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 4:33 PM Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de> > wrote: > >> Am 26.08.2017 um 07:09 schrieb chitgoks: >> > so i tried to create an appearance stream for a highlight text >> > >> > drawing shapes in content stream does nothing >> >> Maybe you didn't set the color... or didn't stroke... or had the path >> outside of the bbox. >> > > the code i used is the same when creating filled rectangles > > > >> >> > >> > upon inspecting the pdf after saving it in acrobat, it has an extra >> > appearance stream dictionary containing an xform >> > >> > but i looked at xform and there does not seem to be any way to draw or >> fill >> > shapes in that object >> > >> > images drawn to xform yes but shapes? has anybody tried this? >> > >> > >> >> Yes of course this can be done. Unless you mean the PDFBox API, that is >> indeed missing. You'll have to do it the hard way. >> >> Tilman >> > > hi tilman ok. since drawing filled rectangles based on the quad points > show nothing, i figure that it needs an xform or something instead of > drawing in content stream after i checked the contents created by acrobat > > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org >> >> -- > Website/Java Games: http://www.chitgoks.com > My Blogs: > http://tech.chitgoks.com > http://wuhtevah.chitgoks.com > http://disneyusa.blogspot.com >
