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I'd also suggest Visio as a vector drawing program. (By the way - it's now
been assimilated by Microsoft.) The UI is geared for dummies, and it doesn't
give you nearly the flexibility of a real drawing program like Illustrator
or FreeHand, but it's quick and dirty, and the output is good enough for
most publications.
The price starts around $200 for the Sloppy Joe version, and goes up to
about $1000 for the Ultra Professional Yeehaw Enterprise Royal Suite
(UPYERS).
Len
(I should be working in Marketing...)
> 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?
