engineering report software.
engineering report software.
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I get a lot of field reports from other engineering companies that have pictures included with the report. Some of these have a way of marking up the pictures to add notes and details to the picture. My question is, what software does this? Can it be done with Microsoft word? Its usually a arrow or circle on the item in the picture and then pulled off for a note, added.
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I've used SnagIt from Techsmith.com for years for advanced image annotation for technical documentation.
TygerDawg
Blue Technik LLC
Virtuoso Robotics Engineering
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The attached image has been shrunk down ~50% so it doesn't mess with the forum layout too much, but here's a recent example. This isn't the BEST example since any solid-colored text would show up decently well, but it shows the outline I describe. It does make a big difference.
So, long story short: I use MS Word for all of it, but I do MOST of my annotation in a proper image editor. I save an "original" version of the image and an "annotated" image in case revision is required.
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Seems to me older versions of Word were better at annotating images in a way that allowed easy editing etc. but may just be user issues.
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Anything that displays on the computer screen from any source, can be captured and marked up to your pleasure.. and saved in a variety of formats.
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But the one which offers greatest verstality is VISIO.
I can size the image to it's true scale.So it looks much more crisp and professional.
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I have a few friends that swear by it.
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I have used LaTeX for projects at home. It is very convenient to export LaTeX to HTML, to PDF and to RTF. It does not have the capability to manage graphics other than by embedding them.
If you are interested in Free Software, the GIMP has the ability to place editable text on top of your photographs. These can be saved as JPEGs and embedded in LaTeX, Libre Office or Microsoft Office documents.
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David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
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It's obvious but I don't see it done often.
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