Inserting jpegs

[zebraken]

Greetings O Founts of Knowledge:
I am having a lot of difficulty and have to undergo cumbersome procedures when I insert a jpeg into a drawing. Many times I need to add commentary or identify areas of the image and need a leader. I can't seem to resize or edit without having to mess with the text or formatting again. This gets to be a big headache when compiling a manual for print and the document contains many pages of text, jpegs (or other image files), excel files, etc.

A colleague uses "Canvas" and is able to easily mix raster and vector files. This program is surprisingly capable but has low functionality on the CAD end and using it introduces yet another convolution in an already twisty trail..

The klugy way we're getting by is to put all the jpegs on separate pages (having used ACD-See and PhotoShop), and the SW drawings on other pages, intermingling text etc.

Although we get by, the flow and understandability of the writing can sometimes be counter-intuitive to follow, not to mention the complexity of production; especially with revisions. Another spin is that there are often several authors too.

Is there an easier way to do this?

 

[TheTick]

The few times I ever had to do this, I found it easier to annotate the JPG using Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. Crossing SW entities into the JPEG was just too flaky for my tastes.

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[DetroitPickles]

Easy way? Ha Ha.

Sounds like you are writing your manual in SW. Is that what you are talking about? If so, I did it the opposite, like TheTick. I exported JPG's from SW and used other programs to do it. I have used Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and Visio amonst other lesser known, no greater advantage, programs.


Mr. Pickles

 

[Theophilus]

I use a screen capture program called SPX to take snap-shots of what I'm working on and insert them into Word or some other more print-layout-friendly format. I touch-up renderings in Photoshop Elements (works great).

Is there a reason this project needs to reside within SW?




Jeff Mowry
DesignHaus Industrial Design

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