Working with positions and views

You can use the Annotations tool window to mark interesting positions in an image, to name them and to save them. You can give every position a text annotation. In this way you will be able to jump to the position in the image that you want with one mouse click, and this will be immediately shown in the magnification you want.

Marking, removing and naming positions on an image

Having certain positions on an image displayed

 

Naming and defining views

Displaying a view

 

Entering a text annotation on an image position

Viewing a text annotation

 

Selecting annotations

See also

Overview - Commenting on images

Tool Window - Annotations

Marking, removing and naming positions on an image

Marking positions

1.Position the part of the image that you want to mark on the monitor optimally.

To do this, use the buttons on the Zoom toolbar, or the Image Navigator tool window.

2.Should the Annotations tool window be hidden, use the View > Tool Windows > Annotations command to make it appear.

3.Click the Set Marker bb_SetMarker button in the tool window's toolbar.

4.The mouse pointer becomes a cross with a flag in your image window.

4.Place the mouse pointer over the position in the image that you want to mark and click the left mouse button.

5.In the image, at the position you've clicked on, a flag will appear.

6.The position you have set will be displayed in the Annotations tool window. The standard name will be "Position + <consecutive number>".

7.The flag of the last position set is always yellow. As soon as you select a further position in the image, the color of the previously-set flag changes to red and the new position is denoted by a yellow flag.

5.Save the image in the TIF or VSI file format.

The positions you've marked will be saved together with the image and will be once more displayed when the image is next reloaded.

Having a look at information about the position

1.Each flag is automatically linked to an info window. Move your mouse pointer over a flag to look at the information.

2.The info window contains the name, the position, the time that the position was marked and the user who marked it. If the position is linked to a text annotation, the text will also be displayed in the info window.

Renaming a position

1.Select the position in the Annotations tool window.

2.Press the [F2] key. Alternatively you can also click your right mouse button and select the Rename command in the context menu.

3.Overwrite the position's name and press the [Enter] key.

Deleting a position

1.Select the position you want to delete, in the Annotations tool window.

2.Press the [Del] key on your keyboard. Alternatively you can also click your right mouse button and select the Delete command in the context menu.

Note: You cannot delete several annotations at the same time.

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Having certain positions on an image displayed

1.Doubleclick on the required position in the Annotations tool window.

2.The required position will then be displayed in the image window.

3.The flag belonging to this position will be displayed in yellow, whilst all other flags will remain red.

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Naming and defining views

You can define interesting image segments as views and have them displayed again at any time. What is special where these views are concerned, is that the defined zoom factor, and the image segment on display, will also be saved with them.

Defining a view

1.Set up the image segment that interests you optimally on your monitor. That is to say, select an appropriate zoom factor, and an appropriate image segment. To do this, use, e.g. the Image Navigator tool window.

2.Should the Annotations tool window be hidden, use the View > Tool Windows > Annotations command to make it appear.

3.Click the Create View bb_SnapshotArea button in the tool window's toolbar.

4.A view will be set up, which saves the currently-displayed image segment. This view will be displayed in the Annotations tool window. By default, your software supplies the name "View + <consecutive number>".

Renaming a view

1.Select the view in the Annotations tool window.

2.Press the [F2] key. Alternatively you can also click your right mouse button and select the Rename command in the context menu.

3.Overwrite the view's name and press the [Enter] key.

Deleting a view

1.Select the view you want to delete, in the Annotations tool window.

2.Press the [Del] key on your keyboard. Alternatively you can also click your right mouse button and select the Delete command in the context menu.

Note: You cannot adjust the size or location of a view retrospectively. If you are not satisfied with a view, remove it and set up a new view.

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Displaying a view

1.Should the Image Navigator tool window be hidden, use the View > Tool Windows > Image Navigator command to make it appear.

2.Click the name of the view once, in the Annotations tool window.

3.The image segment that has been defined in the view will be shown to you in the Image Navigator, framed in green. With this information, you can then decide whether or not you want to jump to this view.

4.When you only click the view once, the view will only be displayed in the Image Navigator tool window. With a single click you will also automatically alter the way the image is displayed.

3.If you want to have the image segment that has been defined in this view displayed in the image window, doubleclick the name of the view in the Annotations tool window.

The view will be displayed in the image window.

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Entering a text annotation on an image position

1.Select the position for which you want to insert a text annotation, in the Annotations tool window.

2.Click the Text Annotation bb_TextAnnotation button in the tool window's toolbar.

3.Enter a name for the annotation in the Text Annotation dialog box.

4.Enter the text and format it using the buttons in the dialog box Text Annotation.

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5.Close the dialog box with OK.

6.The name of the text annotation will be displayed in the Annotations tool window.

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Viewing a text annotation

1.Select the text annotation in the Annotations tool window.

2.Click the right mouse button to open a context menu.

3.From the context menu, select the Edit... command.

4.The text will be displayed in the Text Annotation dialog box.

Note: You can also save a text comment for the whole image (i.e. not only for individual positions). You do this in the Note field in the Properties tool window.

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Selecting annotations

A number of actions make it a prerequisite that an annotation has been selected. An annotation can be a position, a text annotation, an audio annotation, or a view.

Selecting a position

If positions have been defined in an image, you will see one or more position flags in that image. There are several ways of selecting a position flag.

1.In the Annotations tool window click the annotation once.

2.You can also select an annotation directly in the image:

To do this, go to the Annotations tool window and click the Set Marker bb_SetMarker button.

In the image, move your pointer over the marker that you want to select. The pointer will then change its form to a double cross.

Click the desired marker.

3.The active or selected marker will then be framed in yellow in the image.

Selecting a view, text annotation, or an audio annotation

1.In the Annotations tool window click the annotation once.

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