Prevent black border around Free Text annotation in exported PDFs

Technical Support
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Which product are you using?
PDF.js Express Viewer

PDF.js Express Version
7.3.2

Detailed description of issue
I am implementing the Free Text annotation in our app’s PDF Viewer. Our app allows the downloading of marked up PDFs, and upon viewing the downloaded PDF containing a Free Text annotation, Adobe Reader (and Bluebeam) are rendering a black border around it.

How do I prevent this black border from rendering completely?

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Expected behaviour
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Does your issue happen with every document, or just one?
Every document

Code snippet
Here’s the outputted XML string:

“<freetext xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/\” page="0" rect="224,469,394.69499999999994,502" flags="print" name="1b410cfc-435d-a59c-2e58-f467b2c037a5" title="Chris Rauch" subject="Free Text" date="D:20240409142645-07’00’" width="0" creationdate="D:20240409115425-07’00’" TextColor="#E44234" FontSize="12">\n <trn-custom-data bytes="{"trn-auto-size-type":"auto","trn-wrapped-text-lines":"[\"please take a look at this and \",\"provide comments if necessary. \"]"}"/>\n \n \n \n \n \n

\n <span style="color:#ff0000">please take a look at this and provide comments if necessary.\n \n

\n \n \n \n \n \n please take a look at this and provide comments if necessary.\n <apref-replace objnum="null" gennum="null" file-name="null" transparent-background="null" x="224" y="502"/>\n 0 0 0 rg /Helvetica 12 Tf\n font: Helvetica 12pt; text-align: left; color: #E44234\n <apref-replace xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\“>\n ”

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Hello Crauch,

You can try setting the StrokeThickness property of the annotations to 0.

annotation.StrokeThickness = 0;

Best Regards,
Darian