Jasper PDF Export and PDF commenting property

Dear all,

I'm using Jasperreports to produces PDF files.

We need to edit the PDF files using Acrobat Viewer, and add the so named "annotations", that is, add pin notes on different places of the document (known also as "commenting").

The problem is, that the generated PDF from Jasper exporter, has this feature turned off - that is, property "commenting" is set to false.

The question: how to programatically turn that property on ?

I've tried with this code:

But the generated PDF file still has the "commenting" not available.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Sergio.

You can't just make up a name of a parameter to pass in the Map. Where did you get the parameter name "commenting" from?

By pin notes, do you mean tooltips?

The "commenting" parameter comes from Acrobat. Opening a PDF file, and inspecting its properties, there's one that is named "commenting". On the PDF generated from Jasperreport, that property is set to false (commenting disabled).

And yes, I meant tooltips, however, I'm interested in making the commenting available.

Anyone ?

After further investigations, I've discovered that Acrobat Reader (AR) 8 reads the "commenting" feature as not available, while AR 10 reads the same property as available - having provided the same pdf file.

Go figure !

To summarize: the Jasper Report exported PDF file *is* "commenting capable" - but not in AR 8 - not sure about AR 9, but definitely possible in AR 10 (and in the AR Pro version too).

Problem solved - well, at this point I would say that it was not a problem at all

Sergio.

Sergio

Unless I am mistaken, the name of properties you pass to the Exporter class do not map straight onto the properties of a PDF. Hence, I don't see a way you can do this programmatically by simply passing property values.

I did come across this forum post relating to tooltips however:

http://jasperforge.org/plugins/espforum/view.php?group_id=102&forumid=103&topicid=64614&page=1