Annotating TIFF Documents
(Available in the IceViewer TIFF and the IceViewer Pro)
Annotating a document allows users to add notes, lines, stamps, and so on to images, whether they were received as faxes, acquired through a scanner or digital camera or some other method.
Open an image file by either double-clicking on the image file or by using the Open option on the toolbar. The selected image is opened and displayed in a new window of Black Ice IceViewer software.
By left-clicking on an existing annotation, object provides additional options on the top toolbar for that object, such as rotation, font, text color, text alignment (for notes and text objects), object color, borders, and hyperlinks.
For certain annotation types such as Highlight, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Block Arrow, Line, Arrow, and Pencil annotations, a floating menu appears after placing or selecting the annotation. This menu offers quick access to useful tools, including appending a comment (reply) to the annotation, changing the color of the annotation, adjusting the line width (available for Line, Arrow, Pencil, and Shape annotations) or deleting the annotation.
By right-clicking on an existing annotation, a context menu appears that provides copy, cut, paste, and delete options, and the user can also edit the annotation properties. For more information, please see Annotation Context Menu .
Please note that the interaction with annotations is not available in the Free version of the IceViewer.
NOTE: Beginning with the IceViewer (formerly TIFF Viewer) version 12.00, the format of the annotations saved into .ann files and into TIFF Tags has been changed to XML. The IceViewer can still load the old binary format annotations from .ann files and TIFF tags, but it will write the annotations into the new XML format when saving.