contentStream.endText();
contentStream.close();
// Now add the markup annotation, a highlight to PDFBox text
PDAnnotationTextMarkup txtMark = new PDAnnotationTextMarkup(PDAnnotationTextMarkup.SUB_TYPE_HIGHLIGHT);
txtMark.setColour(colourBlue);
txtMark.setConstantOpacity((float)0.2); // Make the highlight 20% transparent
// Set the rectangle containing the markup
float textWidth = (font.getStringWidth( "PDFBox" )/1000) * 18;
PDRectangle position = new PDRectangle();
position.setLowerLeftX(inch);
position.setLowerLeftY( ph-inch-18 );
position.setUpperRightX(72 + textWidth);
position.setUpperRightY(ph-inch);
txtMark.setRectangle(position);
// work out the points forming the four corners of the annotations
// set out in anti clockwise form (Completely wraps the text)
// OK, the below doesn't match that description.
// It's what acrobat 7 does and displays properly!
float[] quads = new float[8];
quads[0] = position.getLowerLeftX(); // x1
quads[1] = position.getUpperRightY()-2; // y1
quads[2] = position.getUpperRightX(); // x2
quads[3] = quads[1]; // y2
quads[4] = quads[0]; // x3
quads[5] = position.getLowerLeftY()-2; // y3
quads[6] = quads[2]; // x4
quads[7] = quads[5]; // y5
txtMark.setQuadPoints(quads);
txtMark.setContents("Highlighted since it's important");
annotations.add(txtMark);
// Now add the link annotation, so the clickme works
PDAnnotationLink txtLink = new PDAnnotationLink();