Add Underline Annotation

How to add Underline Annotation in Java

The Underline annotation marks text with a underline styling like shown at the picture below. 

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

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

Follow these steps to add Underline annotation to document:

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

The following code demonstrates how to add UnderlineAnnotation 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: