Only show current users annotations

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I would like to share a PDF that allows for annotation. However, I only want the current user to see their own annotations, and no others. Is this possible? I'm assuming this needs be done via PDF Embed API?

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Joel Geraci

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Do you also want someone else to be able to see all of the annotations from all users?

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Anonymous25745420ao2qAuthor

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Ideally no one should be able to see all annotations.

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Joel Geraci

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Ok - So You can use the annotations API to store the annotations in localStorage. You'd write some code to read annotations from localStorage when the file opens and to save them back when there are changes. The annotations never get saved to the PDF on the server. Would that work? If so, I can write a CodePen example.

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