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Ink annotations are free-hand scribbles. You specify the vertices and the viewer application will automatically draw smoothened curves linking them. This means that you do not have to record all the movements of a graphic pen on your PDF viewer. Just mark some points around your quarry and you have your vertices. Thus, you can easily annotate your PDF documents with ink annotations using just a mouse.

// Open a PDF document
PDFDocument doc = new PDFDocument(PDFOne_License.KEY);
doc.Load("USPTO_Catalog.pdf");

doc.MeasurementUnit = PDFMeasurementUnit.Inches;

// Create the ink annoation
PDFInkAnnot ink = new PDFInkAnnot();
ink.Title = "Ink annotation demo";
ink.Subject = "Annotation Demo";
ink.Content = "This is an ink annotation.";
ink.Vertices = 
	new PointF[] {  
		new PointF(6.7f,2.4f),
		new PointF(4.2f,2.6f),
		new PointF(4.15f,3f),
		new PointF(5.2f,3.4f),
		new PointF(5.7f,3.3f),
		new PointF(6.5f,3.1f),
		new PointF(6.5f,2.1f)
	};
ink.LineColor = Color.Red;			
ink.LineStyle = PDFAnnotLineStyle.Solid;

// Add the ink annotation to page 1
doc.CurrentPageNo = 1;			
doc.AddAnnot(ink);
doc.Save("ink_annotation_demo.pdf");
doc.Close();

Here is the ink annotation.

Here is the ink annotation with its vertices marked.