Annotations in PDF document

You can create annotations in PDF by specifying -ah-annotation-type. The types of annotations available are text annotation (‘Text’), free-text annotation (‘FreeText’), rubber-stamp annotation (‘Stamp’) and file-attachment annotation (‘FileAttachment’). An author, title, content, display when the PDF is opened and icon of the respective annotations can be specified.

This sample specifies a title (-ah-annotation-title: Annotation;), an author (-ah-annotation-author: Antenna House) and contents (-ah-annotation-contents: Sample;).

-ah-annotation-type: Text;

The display state can be specified to ‘Text’ when PDF is opened by -ah-annotation-open. By specifying ‘true’, it is displayed.

-ah-annotation-type: FreeText;

Font, font size, weight and color can be specified to ‘FreeText’

-ah-annotation-type: Stamp;

Any display styles can be specified to ‘Stamp’ by -ah-annotation-icon-name’. The following shows some of the examples.

-ah-annotation-icon-name: Draft

-ah-annotation-icon-name: ForPublicRelease

-ah-annotation-icon-name: TopSecret

-ah-annotation-type: FileAttachment;

A reference file can be specified to ‘FileAttachment’ by -ah-annotation-file-attachment.