Changing the Overlapping Order of Annotations

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

Select the annotations to change the overlapping order of in the Work Window.

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For more information on how to select an annotation, see the following. Selecting Annotations

Click [Order] on the ribbon, and select the overlapping order.

Or, right-click and select the overlapping order from [Order].

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

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

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

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

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You can also change the overlapping order of the annotations with the following commands.

[Bring to Front]

[Send to Back]

[Bring Forward]

[Send Backward]

If commands are not displayed on the ribbon of Desktop Editor, see the following to display them.

Adding Commands to Ribbons

This operation can also be performed with the tool buttons. If tool buttons are not displayed on the toolbar of Desktop Editor, see the following to display them.

Setting Tool Buttons on the Toolbar

Lists of Ribbon Commands/Tool Buttons

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 Window outside the annotation you changed the overlapping order of to deselect the annotation.

NOTE
When the following PDF documents are displayed in another application, digital stamps may be displayed in front of annotations, regardless of the overlapping order on the Desktop Editor. When IWB documents with digital stamps inserted are exported in the PDF format PDF documents saved with digital stamps inserted