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Robert, 3 September 2009

New features for annotating images and working on PDFs

Now you can annotate precise points in documents and images with arrows in a range of colors and directions. numerous users have asked for this, particularly for annotating scientific images but it works equally well for PDF pages and images in snapshots.

An image with arrows

You can choose where to position the note after selecting the target position and the arrow tips stay pointing to the same point even as their directions change. Arrows work on all supported document formats including plain images, PDFs and web pages. For most formats an arrow can go anywhere, but web pages are slightly different. Because the content can flow around the page they have to be anchored to an embedded image, though you can still move the arrow of the image. Its position will stay fixed relative to the image if the rest of the page moves around. Since text annotation works fine for the text, the arrows are most useful for pointing to parts of images in any case.

The other main addition is page scaling. You can set a preferred zoom or have A.nnotate fit the page to the width or height of the window. As always, this is still pure html and javascript. It would be easy with Flash, but we find you still can't beet the simplicity (for the user that is) of working on pre-rendered images.