Generating Web Output with the Annotate Facility

Overview of Generating Web Output with the Annotate Facility

You can use the Annotate facility to enhance your Web presentation, or you can generate an entire Web presentation using Annotate and the GANNO procedure. In either case you can use the Annotate facility to generate drill-down presentations with the GIF, JPEG, or PNG device driver.

Note: You can also use the Annotate facility to enhance output from the ACTXIMG driver, but the ACTXIMG driver does not support the GANNO procedure. [cautionend]

Note that your graph may conceal your annotations unless your annotations are specified with the value WHEN=A. Specifying this option causes the annotations to be displayed after the graph, so that they will not be occluded. This is particularly important for interactive presentations, where the back wall of the graph may be made visible by default.

Note also that annotations disappear when the Web user selects another graph type. The annotations reappear when the Web user selects the Refresh button in the Web browser.

To learn how to use Annotate data sets to generate drill-down Web presentations, see Generating Web Output with the Annotate Facility.

Reference information on generating and applying Annotate data sets is provided in Annotate Dictionary. Usage information is provided in Using Annotate Data Sets. For information on the GANNO procedure, see The GANNO Procedure.

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