ANNOTINFO marker
The ANNOTINFO marker indicates that annotations were saved in V4.0.2 or later of the viewer. These annotations do not load in earlier versions of the viewer that do not recognize the ANNOTINFO marker. If you want to maintain compatibility with an earlier version, for example, for evaluating a new version of the viewer, you can use the disableAnnotInfo parameter.
The ANNOTINFO marker identifies the module and the version of the module that was used to view the document when the annotation data was saved. This marker enables the viewer to be configured to use the same module and version with which the annotation data was added.
- The annotation data was created with a version earlier than 4.0.2 and does not have the ANNOTINFO marker. Therefore, the viewer cannot tell which module was used to annotate the documents originally. This lack can mean that annotation data moves if users use a different module to that used to annotate the document originally. For example, this problem can occur if the user previously viewed and annotated emails by using the ViewONE Universal Viewing Module but now uses the ViewONE Office Module to view these same documents.
- Enhancements or bug fixes to the modules might cause changes to the way that documents are laid out. For example, a fix that is applied to a bordered table in a Word document might cause a single page Word document to become two pages. Thus, annotations might move to a different page.
To address these issues, version 4.0.2 and later of the viewer include a number of parameters that provide tight control of the viewer's behavior when it encounters various scenarios. These parameters affect only Microsoft Office and email documents that have annotations. Other documents always load in the appropriate module that is detected by the viewer.