/** * Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28554413/how-to-add-overlay-text-with-link-annotations-to-existing-pdf */ package sandbox.annotations; import com.itextpdf.awt.geom.AffineTransform; import com.itextpdf.text.Chunk; import com.itextpdf.text.Document; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.Font; import com.itextpdf.text.Font.FontFamily; import com.itextpdf.text.Phrase; import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.ColumnText; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfAction; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfAnnotation; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfBorderArray; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfContentByte; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPageEventHelper; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfStamper; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import sandbox.WrapToTest; @WrapToTest public class AddLinkAnnotation4 { public class AddAnnotation extends PdfPageEventHelper { protected PdfStamper stamper; protected AffineTransform transform; public AddAnnotation(PdfStamper stamper, AffineTransform transform) { this.stamper = stamper; this.transform = transform; } @Override public void onGenericTag(PdfWriter writer, Document document, Rectangle rect, String text) { float[] pts = {rect.getLeft(), rect.getBottom(), rect.getRight(), rect.getTop()}; transform.transform(pts, 0, pts, 0, 2); float[] dstPts = {pts[0], pts[1], pts[2], pts[3]}; rect = new Rectangle(dstPts[0], dstPts[1], dstPts[2], dstPts[3]); PdfAnnotation annot = PdfAnnotation.createLink(writer, rect, PdfAnnotation.HIGHLIGHT_INVERT, new PdfAction(text)); annot.setBorder(new PdfBorderArray(0, 0, 0)); stamper.addAnnotation(annot, 1); } } public static final String SRC = "resources/pdfs/hello.pdf"; public static final String DEST = "results/annotations/link_annotation4.pdf"; public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException { File file = new File(DEST); file.getParentFile().mkdirs(); new AddLinkAnnotation4().manipulatePdf(SRC, DEST); } public void manipulatePdf(String src, String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException { PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(src); PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream(dest)); AffineTransform transform = AffineTransform.getRotateInstance(Math.PI / 2); stamper.getWriter().setPageEvent(new AddAnnotation(stamper, transform)); PdfContentByte canvas = stamper.getOverContent(1); Font bold = new Font(FontFamily.HELVETICA, 12, Font.BOLD); Chunk chunk = new Chunk("The Best iText Questions on StackOverflow", bold); chunk.setGenericTag("http://pages.itextpdf.com/ebook-stackoverflow-questions.html"); Phrase p = new Phrase("Download "); p.add(chunk); p.add(" and discover more than 200 questions and answers."); canvas.saveState(); canvas.concatCTM(transform); ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(canvas); ct.setSimpleColumn(36, -559, 806, -36); ct.addText(p); ct.go(); canvas.restoreState(); stamper.close(); reader.close(); } }