What is the best way to search through comments using acrobat plugin SDK?

[navnathk72131083]

Hello,

I have created a plugin to create highlight annotation using acrobat plugin SDK.

Now, I want to search through comments of annotations.

How can I achieve this using acrobat plugin api?

Thank you in advance!

[lrosenth]

You can use the Search APIs or do it yourself.

[navnathk72131083]

Hello,

I used Search APIs to search through comments:

Here is my code snippet:

ASText searchKey;
searchKey = ASTextFromUnicode((ASUTF16Val*)reqText, kUTF16HostEndian);
SearchQueryDataRec srcQuery;
memset(&srcQuery, 0, sizeof(SearchQueryDataRec));
srcQuery.size = sizeof(SearchQueryDataRec);
srcQuery.query = searchKey;
srcQuery.type = kSearchActiveDoc;
srcQuery.scope = kSearchDocumentText | kSearchMarkup;
srcQuery.maxDocs = 1;
SearchExecuteQueryEx(&srcQuery);
ASTextDestroy(searchKey);

As per the documentation, kSearchMarkup option is used to search markups (In my case,annotations).

But it is not searching through annotation comments.

It gives me "Not found" error in a search panel at left.

Where am I wrong in this code?

Thank you in advance!

[lrosenth]

SearchMarkup will search the contents of markup annotations. What type of annot are you using?

[navnathk72131083]

I am using highlight annotation.

[lrosenth]

Then it will find the text in your annot as highlights are markup.

[navnathk72131083]

Please tell me what should I use to search for comments in the highlight annotation.

[lrosenth]

Exactly what you are doing…

If you add a highlight with Acrobat and then run your search, does it find it? I wonder if your annotations are not correct.