Stroke Lines Issue

[hasansins]

I can't see stroke lines in the hatch object. Does anyone know what might cause this?

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[rakunavi]

Hello hasansins,

The command icon you are showing is not a hatching feature, just an iconic representation of the feature to measure area. The feature you are looking for is released by @Mathew in the following topic.

• Hatch pattern tool
  viewtopic.php?t=40329

Best regards,
rakunavi

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello,

Just to offer a quick "official" extrapolation on this. Technically speaking "hatched" areas are not a valid comment "fill" type according to the PDF specification, so it is not actually possible to create an "area" measurement (as a comment specifically) with hatching in place, without creating a non-compliant object, and risking damage or data loss in your files.

The best way to safely emulate that appearance, is a tool Like Mathew has created in the thread Rakunavi provided a link to. That tool specifically, takes a selected comment item, and converts it to a base content item, then applies a hatch like pattern as another set of base content items, filling the same shape. One major issue you may run into if you are specifically using the "area measure" is that, since this is no longer a comment, the measurement data is no longer present in the file after this conversion.
Minor Edit above. Mathew offers a correction to this statement below. Please see his post for how his own tool works.

Kind regards,

[Mathew]

The best way to safely emulate that appearance, is a tool Like Mathew has created in the thread Rakunavi provided a link to. That tool specifically, takes a selected comment item, and converts it to a base content item, then applies a hatch like pattern as another set of base content items, filling the same shape. One major issue you may run into if you are specifically using the "area measure" is that, since this is no longer a comment, the measurement data is no longer present in the file after this conversion.

I ran into this thread by accident: Actually the hatch tool just creates another annotation for the hatch (it's officially an "ink" annotation) on top. Your original area annotation will remain untouched by the tool, so you can still get area from it. The difficulty is that javascript does not (yet) have a way to keep your original area markup in the front, so when clicking on it you may accidentally select the hatch annotation instead of your area. You can right click the hatch pattern, though, and send it behind your markup:

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[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, Mathew

Ohh sneaky, and my apologies, I might have given some outdated information, or just been entirely mistaken. I recall testing the tool in the early stages, I could have sworn that early on you had it flatten the creation into base content items, or am I mistaken there?

In any case, I am very glad to hear that the original comment does remain in place, that completely revokes my only worry for using this tool in that context! Excellent work once again Mathew!

Kind regards,