Points Property

Summary

Gets a list of points for the highlight annotations.

Syntax

C++/CLI

Java

Python

public IList<PDFPoint> Points { get; }

public java.util.List<PDFPoint> getPoints();

public: 
property IList<PDFPoint>^ Points { 
   IList<PDFPoint>^ get(); 
}

Points # get  (PDFHighlightAnnotation)

Property Value

An IList of PDFPoint structures that contain the list of points, in PDF units (1/72 of an inch from the bottom-left), of the highlight annotations.

Remarks

The position is in PDF units (1/72 of an inch and starting at the bottom-left). To go to the top of the page, you must go to "0, PageHeight". You can use the PDFDocumentPage.ConvertPoint helper method to convert from pixel or inches to PDF units and back.

The number of points should be multiple of four, each four points represent a single highlight annotation object

Example

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Pdf; 
using Leadtools.WinForms; 
using Leadtools.Drawing; 
 
 
public void PDFHighlightAnnotationExample() 
{ 
   string pdfSrcFileName = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, @"Leadtools.pdf"); 
   string pdfDestFileName = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, @"LEAD_Annotations.pdf"); 
 
   PDFFile pdfFile = new PDFFile(pdfSrcFileName); 
   List<PDFAnnotation> Annotations = new List<PDFAnnotation>(); 
   PDFHighlightAnnotation highlight = new PDFHighlightAnnotation(); 
 
   // Add highlight points 
   highlight.Points.Add(new PDFPoint(100, 100)); 
   highlight.Points.Add(new PDFPoint(100, 200)); 
   highlight.Points.Add(new PDFPoint(200, 200)); 
   highlight.Points.Add(new PDFPoint(200, 100)); 
 
   highlight.Color = RasterColor.FromKnownColor(RasterKnownColor.YellowGreen); 
   Annotations.Add(highlight); 
 
   pdfFile.WriteAnnotations(Annotations, pdfDestFileName); 
} 
 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS22\Resources\Images"; 
}

Requirements

Target Platforms

Reference

PDFHighlightAnnotation Class

PDFHighlightAnnotation Members

PDF Coordinate System

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