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PDFAnnotationMarkup Class Reference

Overview

A PDFAnnotationMarkup object appears as highlighting, underlining, or a strikethrough style applied to the text of a document.

The setLineWidth: and setStyle: methods of the annotation’s associated PDFBorder object determines the stroke thickness and style. The setColor: method of the PDFAnnotation class determines the stroke color.

Tasks

Working with Markup Boundaries

• – quadrilateralPoints
• – setQuadrilateralPoints:

Working with Markup Style

• – markupType
• – setMarkupType:

Instance Methods

markupType

Gets the markup style.

- (PDFMarkupType)markupType

Discussion

Refer to “Constants” for the available markup styles.

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.

See Also

• – setMarkupType:

Declared In

PDFAnnotationMarkup.h

quadrilateralPoints

Gets the array of quadrilateral points defining the bounds of the markup.

- (NSArray *)quadrilateralPoints

Discussion

Each quadrilateral encompasses a word or a contiguous group of words. The quadrilateral points are ordered counterclockwise, with the first point closest to the origin in page space.

Page space is a 72 dpi coordinate system with the origin at the lower-left corner of the current page.

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.

See Also

• – setQuadrilateralPoints:

Declared In

PDFAnnotationMarkup.h

setMarkupType:

Sets the markup style.

- (void)setMarkupType:(PDFMarkupType)type

Discussion

Refer to “Constants” for the available markup styles.

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.

See Also

• – markupType

Declared In

PDFAnnotationMarkup.h

setQuadrilateralPoints:

Sets the array of quadrilateral points defining the bounds of the markup.

- (void)setQuadrilateralPoints:(NSArray *)points

Discussion

The points defined by each quadrilateral array should encompass a word or a contiguous group of words. The quadrilateral points are ordered counterclockwise, with the first point closest to the origin in page space.

Page space is a 72 dpi coordinate system with the origin at the lower-left corner of the current page.

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.

See Also

• – quadrilateralPoints

Declared In

PDFAnnotationMarkup.h

Constants

The styles available for markup annotations in PDF Kit:

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