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I thought I'd start a new thread since the other is getting a bit long.

I have a few questions about Fonts and Alignment when using the Annotation "FreeText"
First, I assume this is the same as a "Text Box" when in the editor.

Here is a screenshot from the editor:

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And here are the questions:

1) I cannot get Alignment to work properly using the ENUM PXC_TextJustification.
Only two values work: TJ_Left, and TJ_Center
All others produce this error: "Value does not fall within the expected range." yet they work in the editor.

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TextMUData.DefaultTextAlign = (int)PXC_TextJustification.TJ_Right; //ERROR
TextMUData.DefaultTextAlign = (int)PXC_TextJustification.TJ_Justify;  //ERROR
2) Font styling - Underline, Strikethrough, Sub- and super-script
Where are these being set when using the editor?
There is no comparable setting for the Annotation in CoreAPI.
I can only assume that you are wrapping the text in <body><p> tags and using CSS - is this true?

Thanks,
Wayne
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Post by Sasha - Tracker Dev Team »

Hello Wayne,

1) It seems that there is a typo in the code for that one - I've asked a developer who implemented this - waiting for response.
2) From what I see there is no direct way of setting these values for the font - the only thing, that you can do is setting the XFA (not CSS) formatted text into the annotation - something like here:
viewtopic.php?f=66&t=26483&p=102933&hilit=rich#p105962

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Hi Alex -

Ok, so:

1) We wait to hear about the code typo and fix so that PXC_TextJustification works properly
2) I can implement code based on your link to insert the necessary text-align setting into the existing text.
3) Is there any way to use "JustifyAll" in an annotation?

Correct?
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Hello Wayne,

That is correct. About number 2 - you should use the XFA formatted text as you were using in the ShowTextBlock method - should work.

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Hi Alex -

I've runs some tests and it appears that there is a typo in the XFA spec regarding "justifyall"

XFA claims to support it, but it does not work in the TextBlock or in the Annotation.
(see page 1190, Horizontal Alignment in XFA spec)
I've tried "text-align:justifyall;" and "text-align:justify-all;" - neither works.

However, with more digging the spec I found "justifyAll" described in the doc for "halign" - and it works.

I'd still like to hear back as you indicated in my original #1 above.

Thanks,
Wayne
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Hello Wayne,

I will fix the typo for the right alignment, though the Justify flag will be removed - as it's not a valid flag for the plain text Free Text annotations (we are having a dev conference and I've asked about this). The XFA should be used for this one.

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Hi Alex -
Ok, it seems odd to me that you'd remove Justify, but as long as it can be done in one way or another....

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Hello Wayne,

That should be done due to the PDF specification as I've been told by our lead dev.

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