My Experience with Dr.Explain

by Victor Wheeler
 
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Nearly Limitless Possibilities

 
The "screenshots" in Window Capture pages (the type of Dr.Explain page with callouts and all the excellent automation dealing with callouts) does not, in fact, HAVE to be a screenshot.   It is just a bit-map image that, in the case of my project, happens to be a screenshot.  This image can come from an actual screenshot that Dr.Explain captures, or it can come from a file, or it can come from the Windows clipboard, which is true for ANY image used in a Dr.Explain project.
 
Thus, the image can be a map, a diagram, an electrical schematic, a photograph -- literally ANY type of image that can be displayed on a computer, can be documented with or without callouts in Dr.Explain.
 
Given these possibilities:
 
 
 
 
 
These facts make Dr.Explain an INCREDIBLY versatile documentation tool for almost any kind of documentation -- not just documentation of Windows applications, which just happens to be one of its specialties!
 
Examples:
 
Examples of "Screenshots" Created from Other Types of Images
 
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