Annotation - keep visible if only a tiny bit is outside the annotation crop region

Annotation - keep visible if only a tiny bit is outside the annotation crop region

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Annotation - keep visible if only a tiny bit is outside the annotation crop region

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I understand the annotation crop region determines what annotations are shown. Unfortunately they can't have non-rectangular shapes (like the crop view). 

 

I noticed when I add a note (text) and while writing the note the text may go a tiny bit beyond the crop region, the entire text will be invisible. Same issue if I adjust the crop region and cover just 1mm of the text, it will disappear without notice. If I'm lucky I notice it right away and can correct the crop region or move or wrap the note differently to have it FULLLY in the crop region. 

 

So many times I thought there is an issue and I added another text just to find out I added 3 notes that appear once I increase the annotation crop region.

 

Unless I'm missing the great idea behind this, I think this is backwards. It should be default to show an annotation even if only a tiny bit is INSIDE the annotation crop box. Or the crop box shouldn't affect it at all since a text note only lives in this specific view and no user would add a note with the intention to NOT show it. 

 

This problem gets made worse because a text by default doesn't wrap, but goes on one very wide line, which sure makes it at least a bit outside the annotation crop region. 

 

Am I missing some feature here that would allow me to change the default behavior or why the behavior to be more likely to be invisible is an advantage? Imagine you have 15 notes on a view. Then you adjust the annotation crop (s. picture below) region and 2 of them disappear and you may not notice they are missing. 

 

The best workaround to find "lost" notes is to temporarily turn off the crop view and then see if something appears.

 

Any better solutions? 

 

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