Add Highlight Annotation

How to add Highlight Annotation in Java

Highlight annotation highlights and comments selected text like shown at the picture below. 

There is an ability to specify the next fields for HighlightAnnotation type:

• BackgroundColor - describes area background color;
• FontColor  - color of annotation text;
• Opacity - allows to set annotation opacity;
• Points - annotation positions set by array of points.

Follow these steps to add Highlight annotation to document:

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

The following code demonstrates how to add HighlightAnnotation 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