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your colleague probably needs to get hold of Visio. It sounds like the
Standard version will do, although for any advanced diagramming, Visio
Technical would be my choice.
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> I'm posting this on behalf of a colleague. Can anyone provide some
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> Thanks.
> Linda
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> Linda,
> any recommendations for an easy to use, but flexible graphics program
> that I can use to make some simple diagrams to add to my help? I will
> need to be able to draw circles, lines, arrows, boxes, add text,
> curved lines, etc. Paint would be ok except it doesn't do arrows. I
> want to add them to the Robohelp help. I can even use Word's
> graphics, but I can not figure out how to save the word graph as a
> file type I can reference with the Robohelp graphics insertion
> routine.
>
> I have an deadline that is quickly approaching, so any help/advice you
> can offer would (as usual) be greatly appreciated.
>
> kelli
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