---
title: PDFAnnotationText
framework: pdfkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: pdfkit/pdfannotationtext
---

# PDFAnnotationText

A PDFAnnotationText object displays as an icon (such as a “sticky note”) attached to a specified point in the PDF document.

## Declaration

```swift
class PDFAnnotationText
```

## Overview

Overview Each PDFAnnotationText object has a PDFAnnotationPopup object associated with it. In its closed state, the annotation appears as an icon. In its open state, it displays as a pop-up window containing the text of the note. Note that your application must do the work to put up a window containing the text in response to a PDFViewAnnotationHitNotification. Currently, text annotations do not scale and rotate with the page.

## Topics

### Managing the Annotation Icon’s Type

- [iconType()](pdfkit/pdfannotationtext/icontype().md)
- [setIconType(_:)](pdfkit/pdfannotationtext/seticontype(_:).md)

### Constants

- [PDFTextAnnotationIconType](pdfkit/pdftextannotationicontype.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [PDFAnnotation](pdfkit/pdfannotation.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSCoding](foundation/nscoding.md)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)

## See Also

### Deprecated Annotation Types

- [PDFAnnotationButtonWidget](pdfkit/pdfannotationbuttonwidget.md)
- [PDFAnnotationChoiceWidget](pdfkit/pdfannotationchoicewidget.md)
- [PDFAnnotationCircle](pdfkit/pdfannotationcircle.md)
- [PDFAnnotationFreeText](pdfkit/pdfannotationfreetext.md)
- [PDFAnnotationInk](pdfkit/pdfannotationink.md)
- [PDFAnnotationLine](pdfkit/pdfannotationline.md)
- [PDFAnnotationLink](pdfkit/pdfannotationlink.md)
- [PDFAnnotationMarkup](pdfkit/pdfannotationmarkup.md)
- [PDFAnnotationPopup](pdfkit/pdfannotationpopup.md)
- [PDFAnnotationSquare](pdfkit/pdfannotationsquare.md)
- [PDFAnnotationStamp](pdfkit/pdfannotationstamp.md)
- [PDFAnnotationTextWidget](pdfkit/pdfannotationtextwidget.md)