I’m working with Apryse WebViewer 11.3.0 and I’m facing an issue related to native hotspot / link annotations that already exist inside the PDF file.
Context
Some PDFs I receive already contain native hotspots / link annotations (e.g. Stamp / Link annotations created in the PDF itself).
When the document is loaded in WebViewer:
These native hotspots are immediately interactive
They show tooltips
They can be clicked, even before their visual appearance finishes rendering
They are exposed via annotationManager.getAnnotationsList() with subjects like:
HOTSPOT
htmlLink
imageLink
At the same time, my application also renders custom hotspots and loads user annotations via XFDF, which must continue to work normally.
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To disable or hide native PDF link/hotspot annotations in WebViewer, you can use the AnnotationManager to identify and manage these annotations. Since your application also needs to render custom hotspots and load user annotations via XFDF, you want to selectively hide or disable the native ones.
Some things you can try:
Use the getAnnotationsList() method from the AnnotationManager to retrieve all annotations currently in the document.
Filter the list to identify annotations with subjects like “HOTSPOT”, “htmlLink”, or “imageLink”.
Use the hideAnnotation() or deleteAnnotation() methods to hide or remove these specific annotations.
Ensure that your custom annotations are not affected by this filtering process.
Are you trying to remove the native hotspots/link annotations in the PDF? Once you retrieve the list of annotations, you can filter out the ones you want to delete and call the deleteAnnotations API to remove them from the PDF.
