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April 3, 2021 at 7:01 pm #57021
BobC
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    ile, It doesn’t matter what icon because there is no function for the icon to perform. Within the picture editor program, what would be best would be an “Draw Pointer and Annotate” function where you would point, then left click to create the arrowhead and anchor your line, then draw your line by dragging, click again to anchor to make a turn, and then just type the text whenever you get to where you want it. Right click would allow you to change the font, color, line thickness, and possibly arrowhead style.

    I tried the MX screenshot program. The “take a screenshot” part of the interface was fine. After it took the screenshot it came back with another dialog which showed a mini preview version of the pic right there. I did like that mini preview.

    It did not have an annotation oriented pic editor. It can Save the pic, Copy it to the clipboard, Run a program from a pulldown list, or Host on Imgur. My ideal workflow is to take a pic, edit/annotate it, and then send or post it. Note that the MX screenshot doesn’t come back to the dialog after running the program, so you can’t edit then send easily.

    The program pulldown list has:
    1. FEH – Wasn’t able to add text or draw line with arrowhead.
    2. Firefox – Maybe they expect I will find a Web based Annotation tool?
    3. GIMP is THE picture editor – It is a very complex program. Too complex for me. It was able to add text. It can’t draw a line with an arrow at the end.
    4. ImageMagick – It was able add text with its “Annotate” function, but couldn’t draw a line with an arrowhead at the end.
    5. Nomacs – Wasn’t able to add text or draw line with arrowhead

    MTPaint was better than any of these at editing and annotating the pic.

    PS: the MX screenshot program is an XFCE program, not a script, so not something reasonable for me to tweak. The mini preview and parts of the dialog sequence are interesting, though. I would expect the newer MTPaint will get to the antiX repos, but don’t know when.

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