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Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs

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Winfield Hill wrote
>What are some good programs to annotate images and graphs?  I know Photoshop is
>great for editing images, and Illustrator is great for page layout, precision
>location of everything, etc., but these programs are huge, expensive, and have
>an unwieldy learning curve.  I've seen nicely-annotated technical photos and
>graphs, with text and lines to the point being described, including grown-up
>features like black-on-white or white-on-black outlining to make things well
>visible, etc., but I don't know how they were created.

In Linux, for just adding text (and it can do a lot more)
use the imagemagick programs
 http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/annotating/

A command line tool, takes a second.
If you have Linux installed chances are good it is already on your system,
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Good programs to annotate images and graphs Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2018-10-08 02:20 -0700
  Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Gerhard Hoffmann <ghf@hoffmann-hochfrequenz.de> - 2018-10-08 12:17 +0200
  Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Mike Coon <gravity@mjcoon.plus.com> - 2018-10-08 11:50 +0100
  Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs <698839253X6D445TD@nospam.org> - 2018-10-08 11:04 +0000
  Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org - 2018-10-08 11:19 +0000
  Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs o pere o <me@somewhere.net> - 2018-10-08 14:15 +0200
  Good programs to annotate images and graphs pcdhobbs@gmail.com - 2018-10-08 05:28 -0700
    Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> - 2018-10-08 06:05 -0700
  Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Bob Engelhardt <BobEngelhardt@comcast.net> - 2018-10-08 09:09 -0400
    Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2018-10-08 07:33 -0700
      Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2018-10-08 09:25 -0700
      Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2018-10-08 22:11 +0000
      Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs o pere o <me@somewhere.net> - 2018-10-09 08:48 +0200
    Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs John Robertson <spam@flippers.com> - 2018-10-08 16:04 -0700
  Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs tabbypurr@gmail.com - 2018-10-08 08:20 -0700
  Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2018-10-08 10:50 -0700
    Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Terry Pinnell <me@somewhere.invalid> - 2018-10-09 20:05 +0100
      Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Malcolm Moore <abor1953needle@yahoodagger.co.nz> - 2018-10-10 20:10 +1300
  Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Martin Riddle <martin_ridd@verizon.net> - 2018-10-08 18:43 -0400
  Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs krw@notreal.com - 2018-10-08 22:46 -0400
  Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Prof78 <scott.hamilton@manchester.ac.uk> - 2018-10-10 02:53 -0700
  Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2018-10-10 08:34 -0700
    Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Marke <mark.e.emerson@gmail.com> - 2018-10-10 09:21 -0700
      Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Bob Engelhardt <BobEngelhardt@comcast.net> - 2018-10-10 15:01 -0400
      Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> - 2018-10-10 15:42 -0700
        Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Chris <c@b.a> - 2018-10-11 11:47 +1100
          Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> - 2018-10-11 06:21 -0700
            Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Chris <c@b.a> - 2018-10-15 11:34 +1100
  Re: Good programs to annotate images and graphs Badbob <badbob45@wi.rr.com> - 2018-10-10 12:05 -0500

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