Text Callout not working

[rahuld25915234]

I'm trying to insert Text callout, however its not showing up. It only showing the annotation box without arrow pointer. Please refer the code mentioned below:

var link = "http://www.example.com/";
var spans = new Array();
  spans[0] = new Object();
  spans[0].text = "Links to: ";
  spans[0].textSize = 12;
  spans[0].textColor = color.red;
  spans[1] = new Object();
  spans[1].text = link;
  spans[1].textSize = 12;
  spans[1].textColor = color.black;

var annot = this.addAnnot({ page: 0, type: "FreeText", intent: "FreeTextCallout", rect: [10, 10, 10, 10], richContents: spans });

[try67]

Why would there be an arrow in a free-text annotation?

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:32 PM, rahuld25915234 <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[rahuld25915234]

When I refered the docs its mentioned to include `intent: "FreeTextCallout"` along with `type: "FreeText"`. Please correct me if I have mistaken?

[Joel Geraci · Accepted solution]

Adding to Karl's answer. You need to specify the coordinates for the arrow in the "callout" property, an array of 6 numbers. See the graphic below.

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

You also need to provide the information for the 'callout' property to the annotation object:

Acrobat DC SDK Documentation - Annotation.callout

In general, it's always a good idea to reverse engineer something that you cannot get to work: Create a document with just a manually added callout annotation, and then "dig around" in it to find how it is created. You can then try to implement that same behavior in software.

[Local221566830801]

I am confused. Why am I doing all this work. I am paying for a product - that product should be able to perform a basic function