Annotation types

There are five types of annotations that you can add to ApplicationXtender documents:

• Line annotations: These include the straight line, the freehand line, the arrow, and the polyline.

  • You can use the freehand line feature to draw curved lines, straight lines, and combination lines (lines with curved parts and straight parts).

  • A polyline consists of a series of straight lines connecting multiple points or nodes. Because the nodes defining the polyline do not have to be aligned, you can create line annotations that are not straight lines. Polyline annotations can contain angles and can even delineate shapes. You cannot fill color to a shape that you create with the polyline annotation. To create a custom shape by using straight lines and a fill color, use the polygon shape annotation.

• Shape annotations: These include the rectangle, the rounded rectangle, the oval, and the polygon.

  A polygon consists of a series of connected straight lines that form a closed shape. You can fill polygon annotations with color. This option also enables you to create asymmetrical shape annotations with a number of user-defined sides. The nodes that define the polygon do not have to be in alignment.

  Shape annotations have a fill color and a line color.

• Highlight annotations: These are similar to rectangle annotations, except that they have no fill color and you cannot configure the default color.

• Text annotations: These have both fill color and line color configuration options, and can be displayed as either text or icons.

• Rubber stamp annotations: These include rubber stamp annotation attributes such as type (text or image) and content (text string or embedded bitmap) as well as the standard annotation attributes.

  Note: Rubber stamps become available for use only after the ApplicationXtender system administrator creates and configures them.

Annotations can be transparent or nontransparent (opaque). Lines, shapes, highlights, and rubber stamps are transparent by default. Text annotations are nontransparent by default. You must have redaction privileges to create and modify nontransparent annotations.