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Does an Open RV .rv session file keep my drawn annotations and text notes, and where do they live in it?

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Open RV .rv session files are GTO files, and RVPaint nodes store per-frame annotations as named components plus an order stack and a redo stack per frame, so annotations travel inside the session file and can be read with GTO tools. Curator qualifications: Docs and code read 2026-10-22; no session saved. Default paint node type declarations (RvNodeDefinitions.cpp) not re-read here. Limitations: Docs and code read 2026-10-22; no session saved. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenRV/blob/27db5464a90ca19a9a30d540988ee109ee06bb7e/docs/rv-manuals/rv-reference-manual/rv-reference-manual-chapter-sixteen.md",
      "note": "OpenRV 27db5464 rv-user-manual chapter five L9; rv-reference-manual chapter sixteen, RVPaint section"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenRV/blob/27db5464a90ca19a9a30d540988ee109ee06bb7e/src/lib/ip/IPBaseNodes/PaintIPNode.cpp",
      "note": "OpenRV 27db5464 rv-user-manual chapter five L9; rv-reference-manual chapter sixteen, RVPaint section"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenRV/blob/27db5464a90ca19a9a30d540988ee109ee06bb7e/src/lib/app/RvApp/RvNodeDefinitions.cpp",
      "note": "OpenRV 27db5464 rv-user-manual chapter five L9; rv-reference-manual chapter sixteen, RVPaint section"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenRV/blob/27db5464a90ca19a9a30d540988ee109ee06bb7e/docs/rv-manuals/rv-user-manual/rv-user-manual-chapter-five.md",
      "note": "OpenRV 27db5464 rv-user-manual chapter five L9; rv-reference-manual chapter sixteen, RVPaint section"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenRV/blob/27db5464a90ca19a9a30d540988ee109ee06bb7e/docs/rv-manuals/rv-gto.md",
      "note": "OpenRV 27db5464 rv-user-manual chapter five L9; rv-reference-manual chapter sixteen, RVPaint section"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Open RV .rv session files are GTO files, and RVPaint nodes store per-frame annotations as named components plus an order stack and a redo stack per frame, so annotations travel inside the session file and can be read with GTO tools. · locator: OpenRV 27db5464 rv-user-manual chapter five L9; rv-reference-manual chapter sixteen, RVPaint section source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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