Setting the Default Tool Mode

[Matt Parizeau]

Q:

When the document loads, I want to make the text highlight as the default annotation tool.  How do I go about doing that?

A:

To set the tool mode to text highlight I would add an external config file with the following code:

(function() {

    $(document).on('documentLoaded', function() {
        var ToolModes = readerControl.docViewer.ToolModes;
        readerControl.docViewer.SetToolMode(ToolModes.TextHighlightCreate);
    });

})();

You could name the file something like config.js and then in the WebViewer constructor (new PDFTron.WebViewer({...) you would add to the options object the code: config: "config.js"

[Matt Parizeau]

For WebViewer 2.0 you would use:

$(document).on('documentLoaded', function() {
    readerControl.setToolMode(window.PDFTron.WebViewer.ToolMode.AnnotationCreateTextHighlight);
});