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IMiS client offers several different kind of annotations to comment and enhance your documents. Annotations can be created, edited, copy / pasted, merged or deleted. To keep annotation changes, you have to save the document. You can set the default view state of annotation toolbar in the "Annotations" category of the Preferences (see Annotations category for more details).

Note: annotations can be saved in TIFF documents only.

Annotation tools

The following table describes all available annotation tools.

	Sticky mode. By default, after every use of an annotation tool the selection tool becomes active. If you press this button you are enabling a sticky annotation tool mode, ie. after you select an annotation tool it stays active. You can set the default state in the "Annotations" category of the Preferences (see Annotations category for more details).
	Select tool. You can select a single annotation by left mouse clicking on it, or you can select multiple annotations by left mouse clicking and dragging the selection box over the annotations.
	Text annotation. After pressing this button, click on the image where you want the text to be placed. A blinking insertion cursor appears and you can write your notes. Click outside the text annotation box when you are finished. You can edit text annotation with double left mouse click. You can change the font, orientation and more in the properties dialog.
	Hilite tool. This annotation is used for highlighting parts of the image. Drag across the region you want to highlight. You can change color in the properties dialog.
	Redact tool. Redact tool is used for hiding a part of the image. Drag across the region you want to hide, then you can also change color in the properties dialog. From IMiS Notes interface only users with "See under document redaction" permission enabled in the Restrictions settings (see Restrictions Settings for more details) will be able to see what's behind the redaction.
	Popup text. Click on the image where you want the popup text to appear. Write your comments and set the caption that will be displayed under the popup icon. To open and edit popup text double left mouse click on the icon. You can change the contents, caption and icon of the popup text annotation in the properties dialog.
	Arrow tool. Select this annotation if you want to draw arrows on the image. You can set many properties for arrow annotation, for head and/or tail for example.
	Freehand line. This annotation is used for drawing freehand lines. You can set the thickness and color of the line in the properties dialog.
	Ellipse annotation. This is the new annotation available from IMiS client v3.x on. It is used for drawing ellipses. You can also fill the background of the ellipse.
	Box annotation. You can draw a box on the image. Like with ellipse, you can fill it's background.
	Polyline tool. This annotation is used for drawing polylines. You can set the thickness and color of the line in the properties dialog.
	Image annotation. If you want to put an image annotation on the page, use this button. An open dialog appears and all you have to do is to select the image file. If you have sticky annotation mode enabled, you can change the image file by pressing this button again.
	Stamp annotation. This annotation is used for predefined image that you have to set it in the "Annotations" category of the IMiS client Preferences (see Annotations category for more details).
	Custom annotations. Popup menu of saved custom annotations. You can select and use previous saved custom annotations.

Creating annotations

To create an annotation the document has to be in the edit mode (see Mouse mode for more details) and you have to enable the annotation mouse mode (see Mouse mode for more details). If you are IMiS client user from Notes interface you also need the appropriate annotation edit permissions to create annotations, ie. administrator could prevent you from create or edit annotations with appropriate Restrictions settings (see Restrictions Settings for more details). You can set default settings of some annotation tools in Annotations category of the Preferences dialog (see Annotations category for more details).


Editing annotations

To edit annotation properties you have to be in the document edit mode (see Documents for more details) and use annotation mouse mode (see Mouse mode for more details). If you use IMiS client from Notes interface you also need the appropriate annotation edit permission (see Restrictions Settings for more details). Select annotation and annotation properties will be displayed on right panel. There you can customize current selected annotation. Useful settings are under Basic and Advanced tabs. Annotation properties can also be accessed thru right mouse click on selected annotation to get the annotation popup menu (see Popup menus for more details). Use Properties option to get the annotation properties dialog and where you can edit the properties. You can also get the properties dialog with double left mouse click on the selected annotation, except for text and popup text annotation. The following figure is the example of the annotation properties dialog.


Set default annotations

Every annotation type can have its own customized default annotation. Select annotation type. Customize it by your desire and press button Save as default found on Advanced tab. Every time this annotation type will be selected it will already have customize settings.


Viewing annotations

Users that use IMiS client from Notes interface view annotations according to Restrictions settings (see Restrictions Settings for more details). Annotations are visible if the user viewing the document has the appropriate annotation view permissions. The exception is the redaction, which is hidden, if the user has See under document redaction permission.

Merge annotations

To merge annotation to the image select the annotation and right mouse click it to get the annotation popup menu (see Popup menus for more details) then select Merge command. Annotation now becomes part of an image and can not be edited any more.




Custom annotations

All annotations on image can be saved for later use. First make annotation or select one on image. Right mouse click on that annotation to get the annotation popup menu (see Popup menus for more details). Select Save annotation as and New annotation to create a new entry or a previously saved one to overwrite existing annotation. In the Custom annotation dialog set a name for the annotation and confirm your input.

To delete previously saved custom annotations use Delete annotation on the annotation popup menu and select desired one to delete.



You can use custom annotations by pressing Custom toolbar button on the annotation toolbar or from Tools menu by selecting Custom annotation tool. A popup appears with all saved custom annotations an all you need to do is to select the one you want to use. Note that if there are no custom annotations saved the Custom annotation tool is disabled.


Notes:
Single annotations can be grouped into one custom annotation. Just select desire annotations and proceed as described above.

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