Changing the Overlapping of Annotations

When annotations, such as stamps and text, are inserted or moved using Annotation Editor, these annotations may overlap each other. In this case, you can change the overlapping order if necessary.

Click

(Select Object) on the Object Palette Pane.

Or click

(Select Text) on the object palette pane.

Note
If you want to change the overlapping order of annotations in groups, after selecting the group, click the annotation whose overlapping order you want to change. For more information on how to select annotations in a group, see the following. Selecting Annotations in a Group

Move the mouse pointer to a desired annotation to change the overlapping order in the Work Pane and click the mouse when the shape of the mouse pointer changes to

Or, drag the mouse pointer selection rectangle to include the desired annotation to change the overlapping order.

Note
Multiple annotations can be selected by left-clicking them while holding down one of the following keys. [Shift] key on the keyboard [Ctrl] key on the keyboard You can press the [Tab] key on the keyboard successively to make a desired annotation selected.

Select the overlapping order using the

(Bring to Front),

(Send to Back),

(Bring Forward), and

(Send Backward) in the Toolbar.

Or, follow the procedure below.

Select the [Annotations] menu > [Order] > select the overlapping order from the sub menu.

Right-click > select [Order] > select the overlapping order from the sub menu.

(Bring to Front)/[Bring to Front]: the selected annotation is brought to the front.

(Send to Back)/[Send to Back]: the selected annotation is brought to the back.

(Bring Forward)/[Bring Forward]: the selected annotation is brought one step forward from its current position.

(Send Backward)/[Send Backward]: the selected annotation is brought one step back from its current position.

Note

If buttons are not displayed on the Annotation Editor Toolbar, set the buttons on the Toolbar. For more information, see the following.

Setting the Icons Displayed in the Annotation Editor Toolbar

If multiple annotations are selected, the overlapping order between them is not changed.

When changing the overlapping order by group, all annotations within the group are changed so that their order becomes front/back in relation to other annotations. When moving the grouped annotations to the front, the first annotation in the group is used as the basis for movement, so that the annotations within the group are continuous. Similarly, when moving the grouped annotations to the end of the order, the last annotation in the group is used as the basis for movement.

	Annotation overlapping order before change	Annotation overlapping order after change
Moving to the front	Group annotations 3, 5, and 7	When moving the group to the front, Annotation 3 is used to determine the overlapping order.
Moving to the back	Group annotations 3, 5, and 7	When moving the group to the back, Annotation 7 is used to determine the overlapping order.

Click on the work pane outside the annotations for which you changed the overlapping order to deselect them.

Note
When the following PDF documents are displayed in another application, signed digital stamps may be displayed in front of annotations or unsigned digital stamps, regardless of the overlapping order on the Annotation Editor screen. When binder documents with signed digital stamps inserted are exported as PDF documents PDF documents with signed digital stamps that are overwritten