My hope is there are Draw controls for highlighting, curved arrow lines, and empty shapes like rectangles. If not, maybe there are some editors with these capabilities. Any recommendations on how to do this in Draw or an alternative app?
My current process to draw curved arrow lines, highlight objects/text, and draw empty shapes:
I need a Linux replacement for PicPick, a screen capture/editor. I found that Draw can highlight and draw curved lines with an arrow, but I could not find a single-click option for this. Consider curved arrow lines. You need to click the Lines and Arrows icon, draw the line, click the curve icon, click the points icon, click the insert points icon, click the line to set a point, and add curvature to the arrow line. With PicPick there is an icon for curved lines. Click the curved arrow line icon, and you can draw and manipulate the line as desired. With PicPick you can select a highlight icon and highlight any object. With Draw click the rectangle icon, draw the opaque rectangle over the desired object or text, click the select icon, right-click and select area, select area/highlight color, select transparency/transparency/75%, resize highlighted area, select line width icon, and select line/color/highlight color. Drawing a rectangle with no interior shading is like the highlight process in Draw. In PicPick you click the rectangle icon and draw with it. The image shows PicPick and Draw.
Another problem I had with Draw was blurry exported images. In Draw you can select a group of objects and export the selection (click the Selection checkbox on the save screen). GIFs are pretty small. A GIF Options page allows you to specify the exported image width. Adding 1,000 to the exported image width resulted in clear images.
PicPick-Alt-LibreOffice-Draw.gif
My current process to draw curved arrow lines, highlight objects/text, and draw empty shapes:
I need a Linux replacement for PicPick, a screen capture/editor. I found that Draw can highlight and draw curved lines with an arrow, but I could not find a single-click option for this. Consider curved arrow lines. You need to click the Lines and Arrows icon, draw the line, click the curve icon, click the points icon, click the insert points icon, click the line to set a point, and add curvature to the arrow line. With PicPick there is an icon for curved lines. Click the curved arrow line icon, and you can draw and manipulate the line as desired. With PicPick you can select a highlight icon and highlight any object. With Draw click the rectangle icon, draw the opaque rectangle over the desired object or text, click the select icon, right-click and select area, select area/highlight color, select transparency/transparency/75%, resize highlighted area, select line width icon, and select line/color/highlight color. Drawing a rectangle with no interior shading is like the highlight process in Draw. In PicPick you click the rectangle icon and draw with it. The image shows PicPick and Draw.
Another problem I had with Draw was blurry exported images. In Draw you can select a group of objects and export the selection (click the Selection checkbox on the save screen). GIFs are pretty small. A GIF Options page allows you to specify the exported image width. Adding 1,000 to the exported image width resulted in clear images.
PicPick-Alt-LibreOffice-Draw.gif
Statistics: Posted by CloisteredNeuron — 2024-08-01 06:50 — Replies 1 — Views 24