BlueCielo Meridian Explorer 2017 User's Guide

Annotating a document

The Meridian Explorer viewer provides a rich set of tools to add annotations to documents as follows. The tools appear in the toolbar at the top of the viewer. If the tool you want to use is not visible, click the More Tools icon to show the tool palette so that you can select it.

After you add each annotation, a note box appears in the Notes panel with your name, the type of annotation, and the date and time that you added the annotation. You can click Edit in the note box to enter or edit a note for the annotation. Click Delete in the note box to delete the annotation.

To add this type of annotation...

Free Text

1. Click the Free Text icon .
2. Click in the document where you want to place the text and drag the cursor to draw a bounding box that indicates the shape and size of the area where you want the text to appear. The text Insert text here appears highlighted.
3. Type the text that you want to add. You may press enter to type multiple lines.
4. When you are finished typing, click outside the text area.

Highlight Document Text

1. Click the Text Highlight icon .
2. Click and drag the cursor to highlight existing text within the document.

Draw Freehand

1. Click the Free Hand icon .
2. Click and drag the cursor to draw freehand.

Text Underline

1. Click the Text Underline icon .
2. Click and drag the cursor to underline existing text within the document.

Text Strikethrough

1. Click the Text Strikeout icon .
2. Click and drag the cursor to strikeout existing text within the document.

Text Squiggly Underline

1. Click the Text Squiggly Underline icon .
2. Click and drag the cursor to add a squiggly underline to existing text within the document.

Arrow

1. Click the Arrow icon .
2. Click to place the location of the arrowhead and then drag the cursor to draw the leader.

Line

1. Click the Line icon .
2. Click to place one end of the line and then and drag the cursor to place the other end.

Signature

1. Click the Signature icon .
2. Click the location where you want to place your signature. The signature dialog box appears.
3. Draw your signature with the cursor above the horizontal line.
4. Enable Make Default Signature to save the current signature as the default so that you can reuse it.
5. Click Add Signature. Your signature appears at the selected location.

Comment Note

1. Click the Comment Note icon .
2. Click the location where you want to place the note. The note is highlighted in the Notes panel.
3. Type text in the text box and click Save.

Callout

1. Click the Callout icon .
2. Click once to place the location of the arrowhead.
3. Click a second time to place the location of the leader vertex.
4. Click a third time to place the location of the callout text.
5. Type the callout text. You may press enter to type multiple lines.
6. When you are finished typing, click outside the text area.

Rectangle

1. Click the Rectangle icon .
2. Click and drag to draw a rectangle.

Ellipse

1. Click the Ellipse icon .
2. Click and drag to draw an ellipse.

Polygon

1. Click the Polygon icon .
2. Click to indicate the location of each vertex.
3. Double-click to finish drawing.

Polyline

1. Click the Polyline icon .
2. Click to indicate the location of each vertex.
3. Double-click to finish drawing.

Edit Annotation

1. Click the Edit Annotation icon .
2. Click the annotation that you want to edit.
3. Continue as described in Modifying an annotation.