I had failed to save some images before annotating them and want to have the clean version again. I had read about using the sidebar and annotations but my result is just a title of the doc in the sidebar when I do so. Here is a copy of the result. I want to get rid of the arrow and then save a copy of it and re insert the
arrow.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
In which application are you doing this?
I was using Preview to do this in annotating and attempting to remove the annotating. I dragged it so Acrobat but could not figure out what to do. Thanks.
Here is the screen shot of the steps advised to another person, which solved the case. Below this I will put in a screen shot of what happens to me when I follow these steps. I am needing help and appreciate any that will be forthcoming. As I said, this is in Preview.
Is there a different app to use to do this? I have always just used Preview to annotated. Is use Acrobat to chop off areas not needed. Would THAT one be better and how to use it (I have Acrobat 7)?
Can't anyone help out there? I need to get these arrows, etc. OFF the docs. Am I in the wrong discussion group? Please help. Thank you.
You are working with JPEG images, the post by TeenTitan was referring to PDF's.
It appears that Preview will apply the annotation to the 'actual pixels' in a JPEG. That means the image now contains those items within the data.
A PDF file supports the idea of layers, the annotations are added above the original content & are not 'rendered' into the image. JPEGs don't have layers so the changes have to be rendered into the content.
The file format causes the issue you are seeing - you should have made a PDF instead if you needed to remove the annotations.
If you have Time Machine you could recover the files from the backup. I'm afraid that 10.6.8 has no built in revisions so you are unable to undo the changes.
Looks like a job for Photoshop.
Thanks for that info. I will work on it.
How can I remove annotations on a jpeg?
