Fill programmaticaly a popup note

[spock]

Hello,

Is there any possibility to assign programmaticaly a text inside a popup note ?
The popup note is associeted to a custom stamp and called with "OpenPopup" command.

Thanks a lot.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello spock,

You should be able to do that using JS code to populate the "contents" field of the annotation.

Please take a look at the RunJavaScript method in the Viewer's AX user manual for details on executing JS code.

Regards,
Stefan

[spock]

Hello Stefan,

Thank for your response.
I'm searching into the JavaScript for Acrobat API Reference, but I don't find how to proceed.
Can you give me a code example ?

Thanks,
Best regards,

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hi spock,

The below is taken from the same manual file and is creating a new annotation:

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var annot = this.addAnnot({
page: 0,
type: "Text",
point: [400,500],
author: "A. C. Robat",
contents: "Call Smith to get help on this paragraph.",
noteIcon: "Help" 
}); 

But also illustrates how the "contents" property works.

Regards,
Stefan

[spock]

Stefan,

Thank for your response, it's very useful when I create a new stamp.
But I also need to set the contents property for popup notes attached to existing stamps.
How to proceed in this case ?

Thanks,
Regards

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hi Spock,

You will need something like the following:

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var annots = this.getAnnots({ nPage:0 }); 
for (var i = 0; i < annots.length; i++) 
  if (annots[i].type == "Stamp") 
    annots[i].contents = "Your text here";

The above code will get all annotations on the first page of a document, will check which of those are stamps, and for them will add the "Your text here" as a pop-up text.

Regards,
Stefan