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Pretty easy and effective, if you ask me.
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If you decide you’d like to put a stroke around the box, just repeat steps 7–9 with the Stroke row selected in the Appearance panel.(If you need to adjust the width and height of your rectangle, click the Rectangle link in the Appearance panel.) Just drag it underneath Characters, as shown below. Order matters, and on your screen, the Fill row appears above the Characters row. The answer lies in your Appearance panel.You can’t really see what you are doing yet, so rest assured you can always come back later to tweak these settings. Turn preview on, set your Size to Relative (important if you want your box to expand and contract as you edit the text), and then add a little bit of extra width and height. With the Fill row still selected in the Appearance panel, chose Effects > Convert > Rectangle.Don’t be dismayed when your text changes to the new color. Change the Fill color to your desired background color. Two new rows appear above the Characters row in the Appearance panel: one for Stroke and one for Fill.Click once to select your text with the Selection tool, then click on the Add New Fill button in the bottom row of the Appearance Panel.Enter your annotation and format it with your favorite typeface, size and style.
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Select the Type tool, and click on the artboard to add a blinking insertion point.(In this example, I’m using Illustrator CS6, but this works in earlier versions as well.) In this post, I’m going to address adding your annotations in Adobe Illustrator to show a nifty trick to add a box behind the annotation that is actually attached to the text: it will move with the text and expand or contract as you edit the words. I’m really not sure there is a definitive answer to this question, but I prefer to add the annotations directly to the graphics in their native file formats: in Photoshop for screen captures and in Illustrator for technical illustrations.
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A lot of our students are technical communicators and the question of the “best” way to annotate graphics comes up frequently in class.
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