Re: change font in DA of FreeText Annotation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 17:42:38 GMT

I don't see any appearance stream (/AP) for that annotation, which is what you need to create in order to have it draw correctly.

change font in DA of FreeText Annotation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 17:36:31 GMT

I am trying to change the default appearance (the DA entry) of a FreeText annotation. To begin with, I can't find anywhere in Acrobat to change the font of a FreeText annotation. My understanding is that I need to create a font alias in DS entry of the AcroForm, then reference it using Tf operator in the DA entry.

Below is the smallest PDF code I created:

%PDF-1.6

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1 0 obj

<</Type/Catalog/Pages 2 0 R/AcroForm 3 0 R>>

endobj

2 0 obj

<</Type/Pages/Kids[4 0 R]/Count 1>>

endobj

3 0 obj

<</Fields[]/DR<</Font<</FNT1 5 0 R>>>>>>

endobj

4 0 obj

<</Type/Page/Parent 2 0 R/Resources<<>>/MediaBox[0 0 612 792]/Annots[6 0 R]>>

endobj

5 0 obj

<</Type/Font/Subtype/Type1/BaseFont/Times-Bold>>

endobj

6 0 obj

<</Type/Annot/Rect[10 400 160 570]/CreationDate(D:20140404131900-05'00')/Subtype/FreeText/Contents(OK, Let's just start a content.)/DA(/FNT1 9 Tf\n1 0 0 rg\n0 1 0 RG\n)>>

endobj

xref

0 7

0000000000 65535 f

0000000015 00000 n

0000000075 00000 n

0000000126 00000 n

0000000182 00000 n

0000000275 00000 n

0000000339 00000 n

trailer << /Size 7 /Root 1 0 R/ID[<da5bbc2c7a8acf9c73eb1fbda9cf31c6><da5bbc2c7a8acf9c73eb1fbda9cf31c6>]>>

startxref

525

%%EOF

Acrobat failed to display the FreeText annotation in new font and background. The document shows that the FreeText annotation uses Helvetica font, not Time-Bold.

What is wrong with my code?

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