Re: Ink and text in Sketch Pages on Zoomer

Longden C. Loo (lloo@world.nad.northrop.com)
Wed, 1 Feb 95 08:26 PST

This may be beating a dead dog.... but I feel (as apparently did others)
that text annotation of sketches using a mixed text/sketch mode in
the notebook function was mis-represented in advertisements. My AST
Gridpad 2390 User Manual even states (P. 36):

** To cut or copy and paste a Text item: **
1. Tap the Text tool and enter the text
2. Hold down and drag the pen across the text you want to edit.
3. Tap the Tool box to display the sketch tools.
4. Tap the Cut tool to remove the item, or tap the Copy tool to
copy the item.
5. Display the sketch page where you want the item to go.
6. Tap where you want the text to go.
To paste the text within the existing text, tap where you want
the text to start.
The text is pasted after the cursor.
7.Tap the Paste tool.

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Step six seems to imply that you can place the text anywhere you care
to 'tap'. Anyway I hope your next cut on this application will allow
for better annotation capabilities as do several similar PC apps.

BTW, when can we have a spreadsheet with combined text and overlayed
sketch modes.... this would be a real 'killer app' for me.

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Longden C. Loo lloo@world.nad.northrop.com
Northrop Grumman Corporation Information Services
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