Images allow you to provide graphic examples within your documents and simulations. You can control what displays in your images and reduce the amount of time your authors spend editing and formatting after image capture. You don't have to take extra steps to modify a screen shot, alter information, or move action notes to hide non-pertinent information.
Callouts allow you to bring attention to specific controls and regions on screen images within a published document. Two types of callouts are available:
- Numbered callouts, which are automatically created for mouse, edit, and drag-and-drop actions; field/description tables; and if/then tables within the procedure section of a document. These callouts display as a number in the left or right margins of the screen image. For a field/description or if/then table, the callout will display in published output as a bracket that highlights a group of fields. For all other actions, the callout displays as a trajectory line.
- Non-step callouts, which you can create manually anywhere within the procedure section of the document. Non-step callouts display and are edited like simulation notes.
Callout display is enabled in the simulation by editing the step properties. Callout display and line color in published content is controlled within the template. For more information, refer to Specifying Default Publication Settings For Documents.
Callout lines are created and adjusted according to the following conditions:
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How the Line is Drawn |
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The step number is placed within the vertical coordinate range of the hotspot. |
The starting point of the callout will display on the side of the action note with the central vertical coordinate matching. For example, center to center. A horizontal line will be drawn to connect the step number with the starting point of the callout. |
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The step number is placed above/below the vertical coordinate range of the hotspot. |
The starting point of the callout will display at the top/bottom center of the hotspot. A vertical line is drawn from that position to the central vertical coordinate of the step number. A horizontal line is drawn to connect the vertical line with the step number. |
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The step number is placed above/below the vertical coordinate range of the combined hotspot region. |
A Z-shaped line will connect the center of the bracket to the step number. The vertical split of the Z-shaped line will start halfway between the step number and the bracket. |
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The step number is placed within the vertical coordinate range of the hotspot. |
You can shift the callout horizontally from the margin to the callout hotspot. In the case of range callouts, the limiting hotspot will be the hotspot closest to the margin that the callout step number is drawn on. |
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Step number is placed above/below the vertical coordinate range of the hotspot. |
You can shift the callout horizontally within horizontal range of the callout hotspot. If a hotspot covers a textbox, you can only shift the callout along the bottom or top side of the textbox. |