CREATING AN ANNOTATION PANE FOR A DOCUMENT BY AUGMENTING THE DOCUMENT

摘要

Annotation methods and systems for supporting the annotation of documents in the format of a rendering engine are provided. The annotation system allows for the adding of annotations to documents, the displaying of annotations over content of the documents, and the displaying of annotations in an annotation pane. To provide annotation support for a document, the annotation system augments the document with elements including an element with annotation engine code and elements to support the collecting and displaying of annotations. When the rendering engine renders the document, it executes the annotation engine code to effect the collecting and displaying of the annotations.

主权项

1. A method performed by a computing device for displaying annotations of a document, the document being in a format of a rendering engine, the method comprising:
receiving annotations for the document, an annotation submitted to annotate the document at a location within the document, and the annotation corresponding to digital ink placed over a rendering of the document near the location; creating an annotation pane that includes representations of one or more annotations; adding the created annotation pane to the document; and rendering the document so that content of the document is displayed along with representations of the annotation pane.