Combining Annotations with Image, V15

I'm using V15 and I want to load an existing annotation, apply the annotation to an image, and then save as a new image, say a Jpeg, with the annotations now part of the Jpeg. Can this be done?

Thanks.

There are examples of this in the help files, you will be interested in the sections about realizing annotations.  Just open the help file for the section you are using and search for realize.

Thanks Boyd. Appreciate the hint about using "Realize." But I've been through the help, now searching realize, but I only see stuff on redactions and automations.

Once you've got an annotation into a container, how exactly does the container get related to an image? I've seen a comment in some code about this, but then I see no code that does it.

I'm not being lazy, but could you indulge me and give me a simple synopsis of what objects and methods I should be looking at to take an existing annotation already in a container (assuming this was the correct way to go?) and associate with an image to save?

Thanks.

Tom

OK, I (partially) see. The AnnAutomation is the key--I had the wrong idea about that--for some reason thought it was only about other media.

Tom

The below code is the minimum to burn an annotation in to an image without displaying an user interface to the user.  Is this what you are looking for?

            RasterImageViewer viewer = new RasterImageViewer();
            viewer.Image = codecs.Load(filename);

            AnnAutomationManager manager = new AnnAutomationManager();

            AnnAutomation automation = new AnnAutomation(manager, viewer);

            AnnTextObject obj = new AnnTextObject();
            obj.Bounds = new AnnRectangle(0, 0, 50, 50);
            obj.Brush = new AnnSolidBrush(Color.Red);
            obj.Font = new AnnFont(FontFamily.GenericSansSerif, new AnnLength(12), FontStyle.Regular);
            obj.Pen = new AnnPen(Color.Red, new AnnLength(5));
            obj.Text = "i am text";
            obj.TextColor = Color.Black;

            automation.Container.Objects.Add(obj);

            automation.Realize();
            codecs.Save(viewer.Image, "c:\\test.tif", RasterImageFormat.Tif, 0);