Adding Pointers With Text Captions

To add a pointer with a text caption to an image in the Review tab, follow these steps:

In the Tools pane in the tool bar, click .

The button is displayed in blue. If this icon is not visible, it may have been replaced by another measurement icon in the same icon group.

Click the white arrow below the icon group button to expand it and display all the buttons in the group. See “Overview of Tools Pane Features”.

Click on the image to place the pointer arrow head.
Drag your mouse pointer and click again to set the end point.

The pointer is added to the image with a numbered caption and the Annotations properties window appears.

In the Annotations properties window, do one of the following:

Enter the caption text for the new arrow (up to 160 characters).

If you have created predefined captions, the Predefined text drop-down list and Fill button are enabled.

Click the drop-down to select a predefined caption name, then click Fill to insert the full caption text into the Annotation properties window.

Click OK to save the annotation caption.

To add multiple pointers with captions, click .

This works in the same way as the single arrow pointer tool, but stays activated so that you can add more pointers without having to reselect the tool each time.

Note: To avoid obscuring image detail, the text caption is not displayed on the image. It is displayed under the image when printed in Film Composer, using a numbered footnote that links the pointer with the caption.