12. The method of claim 1 , further including reading a property that is associated with the second window and that represents whether the second window is in an ink-only collection mode, a gesture-only collection mode, or a gesture-and-ink collection mode.
1. A method for overlaying ink on a document, the method comprising the steps of: displaying the document in a first window, the first window having a handle; generating a transparent second window over the first window; attaching the second window to the handle of the first window; collecting ink data in the second window; and rendering the ink data as rendered ink in the second window.