Add Text Field Annotation

How to add Text Field Annotation in C#

The Text field annotation adds rectangle with a text inside, like shown at the picture below. 

There is an ability to specify the next properties for TextFieldAnnotation type:

• BackgroundColor - describes area background color;
• Box - defines annotation position at document page;
• Text - text that will be appear in rectangle
• FontColor - color of the text
• FontFamily - name of text font;
• FontSize - size of text font;
• Opacity - allows to set annotation opacity;
• PenStyle - defines frame line style (solid, dash, dot etc.);
• PenWidth - defines frame line width in pixels;
• PenColor - defines frame color;
• TextHorizontalAlignment - defines text horizontal alignment.

Follow these steps to add TextField annotation to document: 

• Instantiate Annotator object with input document path or stream;
• Instantiate TextFieldAnnotation object with desired properties (position, page number, etc);
• Call Add method and pass TextFieldAnnotation object;
• Call Save method with resultant document path or stream.

The following code demonstrates how to add TextFieldAnnotation to the document:

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GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

• GroupDocs.Annotation for .NET examples, plugins, and showcase
• GroupDocs.Annotation for Java examples, plugins, and showcase
• Document Annotation for .NET MVC UI Example
• Document Annotation for .NET App WebForms UI Modern Example
• Document Annotation for Java App Dropwizard UI Modern Example
• Document Annotation for Java Spring UI Example