Re: Image/screen capture annotations for documentation

[Shawn <shawn -at- cohodata -dot- com>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:

> Why InDesign rather than a drawing program? Seems like the page layout
> features would get in the way.
>
>
>

Certainly, it is a rather big tool for such a simple task.

But it is the only tool that I own that:
- Will save annotations as vector (the text part)
- Allow me to build a custom library of annotation styles
- Allow very quick updating of background images

It isn't perfect but I have yet to find a suitable alternative... hence the
reason for this thread. I am not too proud to admit that there might be a
better way... either by employing some clever method of avoiding
annotations altogether or some super great tool. :)


-- 
*Shawn Connelly*
Technical writer
  <shawn -at- cohodata -dot- com>

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