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The Annotate buttons affect the title bars of images (the names of the images), and the optional text displayed in small type at the upper left of an image.

"Top Image" and "Images" refer to collumns in the button window.

• Add Note Type in or edit the annotation. TIFF files can have annotation changed via the finder - see below.
• Hide Note Makes the note (annotation) invisible, but keeps them intact, unlike Clear Notes, which erases them. [This is done by adding a slash, '/ ', at the beginning of the annotation, which can also be done by hand with the Add Note command.]
• Show Note. Shows hidden note (makes annotation visibile again). [This is done by removing the slash at the beginning of the annotation. This can also be done with the Add Note command.]
• Change Title Changes the image name - what appears in the title bar of the window. Duplicate image names are allowed (but use caution when saving them, as the file name is the same as the image name, or window title.) Characters such as spaces are allowed. The title can be long - if the image is to be saved as a file, shorten the title using this button. Also, to avoid trouble with computer file systems, avoid characters such as colons (Mac), semi-colons (Lisp), spaces (IBM), dashes, slashes (Unix, IBM).

• Titles -> Notes This is handy for making the image names visible on small windows, where there is not enough room in the title bar.
• Clear Notes Removes annotations.
• Hide Notes (same as above).
• Show Notes (same as above).

Notes

Notes are shown in small blue type on top of an image as shown below. The notes are saved (with TIFF format saves) in the resource fork of the file and appear in the comments box as shown below. The notes can be edited in the Finder by changing the comments box, and they can be edited in MacLispix using the Add Note button.