Square Annotation

A square annotation displays a rectangle or square on the page. When opened, the annotation displays a pop-up window with the text of the associated note. GcPdf provides SquareAnnotation class to enable users to apply square annotations to the PDF file.

Note that a square annotation does not always imply that the annotation is square in shape. The height and width of the annotation may vary. The image given below depicts a rectangle-shaped square annotation.

SquareAnnotation class provides the following properties to set various options for the square annotation:

Property	Description
UserName	Adds the user name to the text label in the title bar of the annotation’s pop-up window when the annotation is open and active.
Subject	Adds the text representing the subject of the annotation.
Contents	Adds the text to the annotation for display.
RichText	Adds the text to the annotation for display in the pop-up window when opened. You can format this text using HTML tags.
Opacity	Sets the opacity of the annotation.
FillColor	Sets the fill color.
LineWidth	Sets the line width in points.
LineDashPattern	Sets the border line pattern to a dash pattern. Null means a solid line.
Color	Sets the annotation color, popup window color, line color, etc.
PdfRect	Sets the rectangle that defines the location and size of the annotation on a page in PDF user space coordinates. The positive X axis extends horizontally to the right, and the positive Y axis extends vertically upward, with the origin usually in the lower left corner of the page.

Refer to the following example code to add a square annotation to a PDF document:

public void CreateSquareAnnotation()
{
    GcPdfDocument doc = new GcPdfDocument();
    Page page = doc.NewPage();
    RectangleF rc = new RectangleF(50, 50, 250, 50);
    page.Graphics.DrawString
        ("A square annotation drawn with a 3pt wide orange line around this note has a rich text " +
        "associated with it.",
        new TextFormat() { Font = StandardFonts.Times, FontSize = 11 }, rc); rc.Inflate(10, 10);

    //Create an instance of SquareAnnotation class and set its relevant properties
    var squareAnnot = new SquareAnnotation()
    {
        UserName = "Jaime Smith",
        PdfRect = rc,
        LineWidth = 3,
        Color = Color.Orange,
        RichText =
  "<body><p>This <b><i>rich text</i></b> is associated with the square annotation around a text note.</p></body>"
    };
    page.Annotations.Add(squareAnnot); //Add the square annotation
    doc.Save("SquareAnnotation.pdf");
}