Highlights are not defined with a rectangle, but with quads. You can
convert the rect to a quad, but you have to use the latter for it to work.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 2:46 PM Jacob MacWilliams <
jacobmacwilli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to highlight a specific field in my pdf but can only
> get it to work with the setQuads method and not with the setRectangle
> method (which would be much nicer then manually recording the quad
> points of the rectangle). Could somebody help clarify what I'm doing
> incorrectly?
>
> PDField pdfield = pdf.getField(field);
> List<PDAnnotationWidget> widgets = pdfield.getWidgets();
>
> for (PDAnnotationWidget widget : widgets) {
>
> PDPage page = widget.getPage();
> PDRectangle rectangle = widget.getRectangle();
>
> // Use info to instantiate approriate highlight box and add to page
> PDAnnotationHighlight idAnnotation = new PDAnnotationHighlight();
> idAnnotation.setColor(new PDColor(new float[] { 0, 0, 1 },
> PDDeviceRGB.INSTANCE));
> idAnnotation.setConstantOpacity((float) 0.3);
> idAnnotation.setRectangle(rectangle);
> page.getAnnotations().add(idAnnotation);
> }
> }
>
> best,
>
> jake
>
>
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