---
title: PDFAppearanceCharacteristics
framework: pdfkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: pdfkit/pdfappearancecharacteristics
---

# PDFAppearanceCharacteristics

An object that represents appearance characteristics of a widget annotation.

## Declaration

```swift
class PDFAppearanceCharacteristics
```

## Topics

### Configuring a Widget’s Appearance

- [backgroundColor](pdfkit/pdfappearancecharacteristics/backgroundcolor.md)
- [borderColor](pdfkit/pdfappearancecharacteristics/bordercolor.md)
- [caption](pdfkit/pdfappearancecharacteristics/caption.md)
- [controlType](pdfkit/pdfappearancecharacteristics/controltype.md)
- [downCaption](pdfkit/pdfappearancecharacteristics/downcaption.md)
- [rolloverCaption](pdfkit/pdfappearancecharacteristics/rollovercaption.md)
- [rotation](pdfkit/pdfappearancecharacteristics/rotation.md)
- [appearanceCharacteristicsKeyValues](pdfkit/pdfappearancecharacteristics/appearancecharacteristicskeyvalues.md)
- [PDFAppearanceCharacteristicsKey](pdfkit/pdfappearancecharacteristicskey.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

### Conforms To

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

## See Also

### Configuring Widget Annotations

- [widgetFieldType](pdfkit/pdfannotation/widgetfieldtype.md)
- [widgetStringValue](pdfkit/pdfannotation/widgetstringvalue.md)
- [widgetDefaultStringValue](pdfkit/pdfannotation/widgetdefaultstringvalue.md)
- [fieldName](pdfkit/pdfannotation/fieldname.md)
- [backgroundColor](pdfkit/pdfannotation/backgroundcolor.md)
- [isReadOnly](pdfkit/pdfannotation/isreadonly.md)
- [PDFWidgetControlType](pdfkit/pdfwidgetcontroltype.md)