Add highlight annotation without comment

[awolfson1987]

Hello,

Is there a way to add an annotation but without showing it under the comments panel in Adobe Reader?

I want to add this:

But without adding this:

Any help would be appreciated.

[highkite]

Hello @awolfson1987,

I am (pretty) sure that this is not possible, since this is completely in the hand of the PDF viewer. Afaik, there are no configuration options to control this behavior of viewers. There is definitely nothing about that in the specification.

What you could try is using square or polygon annotations with transparency to imitate the look of highlight annotations and maybe Adobe reader does not show these annotations. But this is just guessing.