How to: Modify an Existing Text Markup Annotation

• Apr 23, 2019
• 2 minutes to read

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This example shows how to change an existing markup annotation’s settings in a PDF document.

To retrieve all text markup annotations in a page, call the PdfDocumentProcessor.GetMarkupAnnotationData method.

Note

A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/how-to-modify-an-existing-text-markup-annotation-t545429

Program.vb

Imports DevExpress.Pdf
Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic

Namespace ModifyExistingMarkupAnnotation

    Friend Class Program
        Shared Sub Main(ByVal args() As String)

            ' Create a PDF Document Processor.
            Using processor As New PdfDocumentProcessor()

                ' Load a document.
                processor.LoadDocument("..\..\Document.pdf")

                ' Get a list of annotations in the first document page.
                Dim annotations As IList(Of PdfMarkupAnnotationData) = processor.GetMarkupAnnotationData(1)

                If annotations.Count > 0 Then

                    ' Change the properties of the first annotation.
                    annotations(0).Author = "Bill Smith"
                    annotations(0).Contents = "Important!"
                    annotations(0).Color = New PdfRGBColor(0.6, 0.7, 0.3)
                    annotations(0).Opacity = 0.2

                    ' Save the result document.
                    processor.SaveDocument("..\..\Result.pdf")
                Else
                    Console.WriteLine("The specified document page does not contain markup annotations!")
                End If
            End Using
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

Program.cs

using DevExpress.Pdf;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace ModifyExistingMarkupAnnotation {

    class Program {
        static void Main(string[] args) {

            // Create a PDF Document Processor.
            using (PdfDocumentProcessor processor = new PdfDocumentProcessor()) {

                // Load a document.
                processor.LoadDocument("..\\..\\Document.pdf");

                // Get a list of annotations in the first document page.
                IList<PdfMarkupAnnotationData> annotations = processor.GetMarkupAnnotationData(1);

                if (annotations.Count > 0) {

                    // Change the properties of the first annotation.
                    annotations[0].Author = "Bill Smith";
                    annotations[0].Contents = "Important!";
                    annotations[0].Color = new PdfRGBColor(0.6, 0.7, 0.3);
                    annotations[0].Opacity = 0.2;

                    // Save the result document.
                    processor.SaveDocument("..\\..\\Result.pdf");
                }
                else
                    Console.WriteLine("The specified document page does not contain markup annotations!");
            }
        }
    }
}