Add Annotations Creating a White Space

[NasGit99]

Hi, I see people have had this issue before, referencing #4709

When I run add_redact_annot it creates a whitespace that I am not sure how to get rid of. I tried the solution in the discussion that I referenced but I was not able to get it to work. Any suggestions?

for page in pdf:
            for attr in pdf_content:
                translations = attr[0]          
                font = self.font_validator(attr[1])
                size = attr[2]
                color = self.color_validator(attr[3])
                bbox = attr[4]

                page.add_redact_annot(bbox,text=translations, fontname=font, fontsize=size, text_color=color)
                    page.apply_redactions(images=pymupdf.PDF_REDACT_IMAGE_NONE,graphics=pymupdf.PDF_REDACT_LINE_ART_NONE) 

[JorjMcKie]

It does not create a white space - it leaves a gap!
There is no way to avoid this: please recall that a PDF is not a Word document, where remaining content is reshuffled after deletion.

The referenced discussion had a different, self-created the problem. If you allow defaults in .apply_redactions() then more than just the text is being removed: If there was an overlapping image, then that will show a punched-out hole, any overlapping vector graphics will be completely removed ...

[NasGit99]

Ok that makes sense. Thank you