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Interface: FreeTextAnnotation

A free text annotation (Table 174).

It draws as its shape — its box, border, fill, callout and text — and nothing else. The entries beside it, and the /Contents and /RC the annotation holds, are the file's own: read into the shape at import, and kept for a save of the annotation as it was.

Properties

Property	Description
markup AnnotationMarkup	-
shape? ShapeTree	What it draws: a drawing shape tree whose root is its one shape, in page space — its box rect less /RD, its geometry a rectangle or a callout, its line, its fill and its text (Annotation::free_text_shape). May be left out of the InsertAnnotations and UpdateAnnotations wire forms, as a tree whose root id is unset; execution reads one from the entries in its place.
defaultAppearance DefaultAppearance | null	/DA — the style its text is set in.
justification | AnnotationTextJustification | null	/Q.
defaultStyle RichTextStyle | null	/DS — the default style string, as the style it sets.
calloutLine Point[] | null	/CL — the callout line, two or three points.
lineEnding | AnnotationLineEnding | null	/LE — the ending at the callout line's start.
borderEffect AnnotationBorderEffect | null	/BE.
rectDifferences AnnotationRectDifferences | null	/RD.