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Thanks- that makes a lot of sense. The only thing I'm not sure I
understand is what you're saving about being able to "stretch" the
arrows... Do you have a pic that could explain what you mean? Thank you!
Deepali
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Stone [mailto:rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 2:45 PM
To: Potdar, Deepali; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Anyone here use Captivate?
Hi again
Rather than a stockpile of captions, I'd probably create one or two that
had
no callout pointer. Then I'd have perhaps the following arrow images.
* Arrow pointing straight up
* Arrow pointing straight down
* Arrow pointing straight left
* Arrow pointing straight right
* Arrow pointing up and left
* Arrow pointing up and right
* Arrow pointing down and left
* Arrow pointing down and right
This way, I could just insert the arrow, possibly stretch it (would
depend
on how the stretching affected the tip) then superimpose the caption.
Hopefully this helps... Rick :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Potdar, Deepali" <deepali -at- bf -dot- umich -dot- edu>
To: "Rick Stone" <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com>; <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:41 PM
Subject: RE: Anyone here use Captivate?
Thanks, Rick. That is a bummer. So I think you're suggesting that I
create a "stockpile" of customized captions with arrows in a few
different places, so I have more to choose from and at least they're
somewhat customized?
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