Locking Annotations?

[airskeeter]

How do I lock annotations to the background so that they will not be erased when I clear annotations?

When i clear my chicken-scratch, it takes some of my annotations that I thought that I had locked down....

[sartley]

Here's what I did - and it worked for me ...
Create your annotations. Use the select tool to pick them up - either individually, groups or all together - obviously depending on what they are. When they are selected, right click with the pen barrel button, or right mouse button if working away from a board. Then >Edit >Layer >Lock on Background. I even tried using the Clear tool to Clear Background and they remained. Only when I used the Clear tool to Clear Page did they disappear.
Hope this helps.

[Margaret Allen]

Hi

You don't have to lock them. Basically an annotation is anything which is on the top layer and so if you change the property of your annotation - in other words make your annotation a middle layer or bottom layer object, when you "clear annotations" it can only clear anything which is top layer!



+wave+

[airskeeter]

Ahhhhhh...Thanks. Again, you are extra helpful!! :D :D