Transcribing Documents

[gathompson56]

I have been using iFamily for the past year and am now giving Reunion10 a try. One nice function in iFamily is the ability to transcribe notes from a media document.

eg: For a census you can zoom in to the people you are interested and transcribe the notes in a side panel associated with the media. The transcription and block of the census that you have transcribed are always recoverable. So you can come back and check your work.

Is there a similar process for Reunion10? Perhaps a note or comment box that is associated with the media?

[ttl]

Re: Transcribing Documents

Reunion sources have a free form text tab that you can paste copied text into. Also, you can attach multimedia files to sources, which allows you to associate actual census images, or pdf files, or Word files, and a number of other formats. Once linked, there's also a comments text field available to write stuff about multimedia files.

Hope this helps.

[gathompson56]

Re: Transcribing Documents

Thanks Tim. I will test that out this weekend.

[ttl]

Re: Transcribing Documents

Great!

I think I need to make a small correction to my previous comment though. The multimedia comments are only available for media attached to people or families. Source multimedia don't have the same feature available, but the free form text tab in the source might cover the needs you've described.

[gathompson56]

Re: Transcribing Documents

I have gotten part of the way in my transcription process. The goal is to take a document like a census, identify with a coloured box the people of interest, then link to that my transcribed notes of what is in the coloured box.

Preview has a transcription button. This allows you to add rectangles arrows etc, in various colours and line weights. Unfortunately when you save and reopen the colours are shifted to grey. Anyone know the trick to save the colour?

The workaround is to save in pdf format. When you open again the annotations are save in colour.

[alan]

Re: Transcribing Documents

Preview has a transcription button. This allows you to add rectangles arrows etc, in various colours and line weights. Unfortunately when you save and reopen the colours are shifted to grey. Anyone know the trick to save the colour?

I have had that problem especially when downloading documents on-line, annotating them in Preview with coloured text only to find they are saved but in gray. I have taken this up with Apple Techs. on two occasions, but, it appears that if the original document you download is of "RGB" color mode (Preview>Inspector will reveal that) you can annotate & save in colour. However, if the document is of "Gray" mode then the item annotated will be saved in grey.

I find it frustrating, and also not being able to annotate in Preview because the jpg document doesn't allow "Transparency" and you have to duplicate to say PNG, annotate and export back to a jpg format again.

Hope this helps.

[gathompson56]

Re: Transcribing Documents

Alan:

Thanks for clarifying the issue. Boxes and circles will show up in colour if you convert to pdf but then the file goes from 1.3mb to 13mb. In preview I made a copy then added a bold black box on the census info of interest. Colour would be nicer but this will do.

That is one function that iFamily does very well.

grant