I want to delete all annotations of a particular type using javascript. The problem is, I don't know what type Acrobat considers these annotations to be! They were created with a third party plug in that we no longer use. Acrobat does recognize them. I can select and delete them individually and the Content Panel describes them under Annotations as DGAP:RedaxBox. Yes I have looked at the SDK, but there are dozens of different annotation types to try. I would be grateful for any tips on how to describe these annotations in javascript. I am using Acrobat Pro 9. I am a beginner in scripting.
Identifying Annotation Type
2010-05-04 10:05:24
2010-05-04 13:11:37
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Acrobat JavaScript only has 16 listed. Have you looked at the Acrobat JS API Reference to see how to access the annotation object and report about it?
For example:
You can revise the code to loop through all of the pages or any single page and you should be able to see if your annotation can be detected and what it's type is in Acrobat JavaScript.
For example:
// Acquire all annotations on the first page, and write information to the console.this.syncAnnotScan(); // make sure you access the updated annotationsvar annots = this.getAnnots({nPage:0,nSortBy: ANSB_Author,bReverse: true});console.show();console.println("Number of Annotations: " + annots.length);var msg = "%s in a %s annot said: \"%s\"";for (var i = 0; i < annots.length; i++)console.println(util.printf(msg, annots[i].author, annots[i].type,annots[i].contents));
You can revise the code to loop through all of the pages or any single page and you should be able to see if your annotation can be detected and what it's type is in Acrobat JavaScript.
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