Add checkbox component
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Checkbox component creates a checkbox as shown in the picture below:
You can specify the following properties of the CheckBoxComponent class:
To add a checkbox component, follow these steps:
- Instantiate the Annotator class. Specify the input document path or stream.
- Instantiate the CheckboxComponent class. Specify the appropriate properties (position, page number, etc).
- Call the Add method. Specify the CheckboxComponent class.
- Call the Save method. Specify the output document path or stream.
The following code snippet shows how to add CheckboxComponent to the document:
try(final Annotator annotator = new Annotator(Constants.INPUT_PDF)) {
CheckBoxComponent checkbox = new CheckBoxComponent();
checkbox.setChecked(true);
checkbox.setBox(new Rectangle(100, 100, 100, 100));
checkbox.setPenColor(65535);
checkbox.setStyle(BoxStyle.STAR);
Reply reply1 = new Reply();
reply1.setComment("First comment");
reply1.setRepliedOn(new Date());
Reply reply2 = new Reply();
reply2.setComment("Second comment");
reply2.setRepliedOn(new Date());
List<Reply> replies = new ArrayList<>();
replies.add(reply1);
replies.add(reply2);
checkbox.setReplies(replies);
annotator.add(checkbox);
annotator.save("result_checkbox_component.pdf");
}
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