Annotations

[rgoodson40]

Hello,

I asked this question about a year ago and I am just checking to see if its ready yet. Does the GDPicture.NET have the ability to view either XMP or Wang annotations yet?

Thanks,
Reagan

[Loïc]

Hi Reagan,

Annotation is a very big amount of work.
Today we already implemented all the core. Now we have to build the interface layer.

We can expect to have following annotation features within 3 months:

- Visual annotation tool for PDF and image (tiff, png, jpeg)
- Low-level API to annotate PDF, by code, with the same features that Adobe provides.

We do not have plan to support wang format, and will probably never support it.

Let me know if you have any other question related to that.

Kind regards,

Loïc

[rgoodson40]

Thanks Loic. I am planning to wait, however I want to make sure that its going to do what I need.

I will specifically need the ability to add highlights, stamps, post-it notes, freehand lines, and redactions (opaqe rectangles).

Also, in the past I have used Global 360's Imaging for Windows for annotations, which uses Wang annotations. Your documentation says that you can read Wang annotations, so would your system have the ability to convert a Wang annotation to an XMP annotation so that the Wang annotations will not be lost when I move to your system?

Thanks,
Reagan

[rgoodson40]

Hello Loic,

I am planning to wait for you to get the annotation functionality working. However, I want to make sure that the documents in my current application are formatted correctly. I have a few tif files that contain annotations created by other applications. Would it be possible for you to take a look at the those files and tell me which file's annotations are formatted correctly (in the xmp format) so that your application will be able to recognize and load the annotations? I will then be able to work on getting the other annotations converted to the xmp format.

Is there an email address that I can send the files to you?

Thanks,
Reagan

[Loïc]

Hi Reagan,

We will no render annotation generated by other components. I don't know 2 vendors which generate XMP metadata in the same way.
So, our next plugin will be "only" able to read/write GdPicture metadata to an image/PDF, using the XMP Serialization Model. As all vendor do...

Kind regards,

Loïc

[rgoodson40]

Thanks Loic. I will figure out a workaround for this.

[rgoodson40]

Hello Loic,

Is the annotation functionality ready yet? If not, when do you expect it to be available?

Thanks,
Reagan

[Loïc]

Hi Reagan,

All is done in our internal release. We will publish the annotation feature through GdPicture.NET 8 which will be released within 1 and 2 months.
BTW, we should start a beta program of GdPicture.NET 8 very soon.

Loïc

[rgoodson40]

Thank you Loic. I am looking forward to the release.

Reagan