You can’t open an annotation as a plain text file – it’s a custom binary structure. You can visualize it on top of a surface in freeview. Something like: freeview -f surf/lh.inflated:annot=label/lh.aparc.annot

From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of 1248742467 1248742467@qq.com Reply-To: FS Help freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 8:42 AM To: FS Help freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: [Freesurfer] Open the .annotation file with Notepad is garbled

External Email - Use Caution Hello, FreeSurfer Why is it garbled when I open the .annotation file with Notepad? Is there any solution? [cid:C964CF87@C8A79C62.0DA0855F.png] Looking forward to your reply