Update Annotation Appearances ​

Annotations may contain properties that describe their appearance — such as annotation color or shape. However, these don’t guarantee that the annotation will be displayed the same in different PDF viewers. To solve this problem, each annotation can define an appearance stream that should be used for rendering the annotation.

ComPDFKit PDF SDK will update the annotation appearance by default when you modify the annotation properties. You can also manually update the appearance by calling the updateAppearanceStream method, but you must call the updateAppearanceStream method manually when you modify the bounds of the FreeText, Stamp, Signature annotation, refer to the following method in the CPDFAnnotation class.

bool UpdateAp();

It’s easy to set up an annotation to show a custom appearance stream. This is typically done with stamp annotations because they have few other properties. A stamp annotation used this way is usually called an image annotation.

The following part introduces how to set annotation appearance that does not match page rotation.

If set, do not rotate the annotation’s appearance to match the rotation of the page. The upper-left corner of the annotation bounds shall remain in a fixed location on the page.

CPDFKitShareConfig.enableAnnotationNoRotate = YES;

In addition, when it comes to the FreeText annotation, refer to the following method in the PDFListView class.

- (void)addAnnotationFreeTextAtPoint:(CGPoint)point forPage:(CPDFPage *)page;
- (void)drawPage:(CPDFPage *)page toContext:(CGContextRef)context;
- (void)moveAnnotation:(CPDFAnnotation *)annotation fromPoint:(CGPoint)fromPoint toPoint:(CGPoint)toPoint forType:(PDFAnnotationDraggingType)draggingType;