ver 6.0 object model - Adobe Acrobat

Have you read the IAC Reference? The properties and methods available
are all documented there. I don't think there is anything on text
boxes, however. Consider the VBJavaScript interface.

Aandi Inston

Aandi,
Excerpt from the IAC Ref:
AcroExch.PDPage
●AddAnnot — Adds a specified annotation at a specified location in the page’s annotation array.
●AddNewAnnot — Creates a new text annotation and adds it to the page.

(I)did not locate a definitive definition (or code example) of either of these objects or parameters like the VB object browser lists:

Function AddNewAnnot(nIndexAddAfter As Long, szSubType As String, rect As Object) As Object
Member of Acrobat.CAcroPDPage
Creates a new text annotation and adds it to the page.

For example: what are the different subtypes?

I will continue searching for additional documentation.

Thank you for your assistance,
Eric Abbott

All:
The API Reference does a better job of explaining the details behind the function. Researching it now for thread applicability.

Regards,

Eric

Like a lot of PDF programming, to work effectively you need knowledge
of the PDF format. Annotations are described in section 8.4 of the PDF
Reference. Table 8.16 is particularly relevant.

Aandi Inston

Thanks Aandi,
Thorough reference for the annotation objects but I don't believe this is the information concerning the text box tool. Still looking in the PDF reference document for that. The annotation type "freetext" isn't the correct object either I think. There's a lot of information here and sometimes the "list of contents" page is somewhat confusing to follow.

I'll continue looking.

Best regards,
Eric Abbott

The text box tool creates an annotation with subtype FreeText.

Aandi Inston

Hi Aandi,
Thank you for the above instance information. I was wondering if the JSObject model is the same for version Acrobat 6.0 as it is for version 7.0?

So far the following code gives me a graphic question mark instead of the freetext annotation (I think there needs to be some sort of repaint or re-set event to fire after creating the annotation):

Public Sub main()
'add a text annotation to the current page in Acrobat:
'It will be added as the first annotation in the page's annotation array.

Dim AcroApp As CAcroApp
Dim AVDoc As CAcroAVDoc
Dim AVPage As CAcroAVPageView
Dim PDPage As CAcroPDPage
Dim PDDoc As CAcroPDDoc
Dim Rect As CAcroRect

Dim LinkAnnot As CAcroPDAnnot
Dim strAnnotValue As String
Dim JSObject As Object
Dim annot As Object
Dim props As Object

Set AcroApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
Set Rect = CreateObject("AcroExch.Rect")
Set JSObject = CreateObject("acroexch.pddoc")

Set AVDoc = AcroApp.GetActiveDoc
Set PDDoc = AVDoc.GetPDDoc
Set AVPage = AVDoc.GetAVPageView
Set PDPage = PDDoc.AcquirePage(AVPage.GetPageNum)

'set the location values
Rect.Top = 745
Rect.Left = 203
Rect.Right = 382
Rect.bottom = 712

'retrieve the javascript object
Set JSObject = PDDoc.GetJSObject

'create a new text annnotation and assign text string value
Set LinkAnnot = PDPage.AddNewAnnot(-1, "freetext", Rect)
LinkAnnot.SetContents ("test")

End Sub

>Thank you for the above instance information. I was wondering if the JSObject model is the same for version Acrobat 6.0 as it is for version 7.0?

The JSObject processing is the same, but JavaScript itself has quite a
few changes. The JavaScript Reference, however, is reasonably good at
noting the changes, and the versions where they occurred.

> Set LinkAnnot = PDPage.AddNewAnnot(-1, "freetext", Rect)

See the IAC Reference, this is not what the documentation says.

Aandi Inston

Aandi,
You're right. The Reference says that the subtype is "FreeText".

Thanks for the pointer. Have upgraded to 7.0. Still working the problem.

eric