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Subject:Re: callouts in Paint Shop Pro--an easy way? From:Max Wyss <prodok -at- prodok -dot- ch> To:kimber_miller -at- acs-inc -dot- com Date:Tue, 23 May 2000 19:30:41 +0200
Kimber,
Callouts and similar elements are indeed pretty hard to do on raster
graphics. For such things, I strongly suggest to use a vector based graphic
software. I have achieved very good results with Adobe Illustrator, but as
you are Windows-based, you might look at Corel Draw (if budget is an
issue).
One "trick" I use is to have two exact copies of the line or arrow on top
of each other: the lower one is white and 1.5 to 2 points wider than the
upper black one. This causes a subtle, but noticeable separation between
the lines and the underlying graphic.
Hope, this can help.
Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering
Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
My colleague needs to create callouts on screen captures that she has
created in
Paint Shop Pro, Version 5. This is proving to be a nasty, gnarly task, with
using the provided arrow graphics. She wonders if there's not an easier way?
