How to set Annotation Author for Android?

[ananthasooraj.pai]

Product:
PDFTron Android SDK
Product Version:
9.2.1
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is there any way we can set Annotation Author for each annotation?
Similar query being asked for IOS,

How to set title property for PTAnnot

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• API for Annotating PDFs on Cross-Platform (Core)
• API for Document Generation via Template on Cross-Platform (Core)

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• Class PDFViewWPF - DrawAnnotations
• PDFDocInfo - public void setAuthor (String author)
• Class Highlight - Highlight(Annot)

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[ama]

@ananthasooraj.pai

What is the high level use case for setting the annotation author programatically?

Thanks,
Andrew.

[ananthasooraj.pai]

We have a use case displaying ‘user name’ who modified or added an annotation.
Sharing the screenshot of the same from our web-app.

[ama]

Hi @ananthasooraj.pai

Could you clarify a few more questions for us:

• Do you expect the author to be able to modify other people’s annotation? Can one author modify another author’s annotations?
• In the annotation list you’ve displayed do you expect the creator to be shown or the author who last modified the annotation to be shown?

Thanks,
Andrew

[ananthasooraj.pai]

Hi @ama

Please find the replies inline

• Do you expect the author to be able to modify other people’s annotation? Can one author modify another author’s annotations?
  Yes.
• In the annotation list you’ve displayed do you expect the creator to be shown or the author who last modified the annotation to be shown?
  Creator.
  Thanks

[emallon]

Hi there,

It is possible to set the author by using the ToolManager.
Please see sample java code below:

mToolmanager.setAuthorName("Your Author Name");
mToolmanager.setAuthorId("Your Author Id");

Best,
Eamon