Pointofix - [Screen Capture Annotator]

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Pointofix - [Screen Capture Annotator]

#1 Post by freakazoid »

[Mod note: this topic was split from the ScreenMarker topic, at viewtopic.php?t=3774]

here's another one... tested with ThinLoader.

Pointofix (746kb uncompressed):
http://www.pointofix.de/download.php

Download the ZIP and the translation pack for english.

Unzip "Pointofix.exe" from the main ZIP and "pointofix_tranlation_en.ini" from the language pack.

Rename "pointofix_translation_en.ini" to "pointofix_translation.ini".
Double-click "pointofix.exe".

Can somebody confirm portability?

I think this app is better than ScreenMarker.

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#2 Post by I am Baas »

Nice find.

Writes to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Amerigomedia\Pointofix

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#3 Post by I am Baas »

Pointofix is at version 1.7 (2012.06.28). Was it ever jauntized?

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Here's my old JPE launcher: http://www.mediafire.com/?5v4dgc6o42da73e

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#5 Post by webfork »

>pointofix

FWG covered this and mentioned it was portable so I was pleased to see someone had already looked into it. Thanks Baas for testing. I really have a need for a program like this and would of course prefer a portable version. I posted a link to this thread and mentioned Baas' finding about the registry key.

http://www.freewaregenius.com/pointofix ... entations/

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Pointofix - [Screen Capture] Annotator

#6 Post by guindos98 »

Hello to everyone!

This is my first post, sorry if I miss anything!

http://www.pointofix.de/

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This program, Pointofix, is a very useful tool for annotate all kind of documents, via circles, transparent highlights and things like that.
I works by taking a screenshot of the whole desktop and opening its own image editor (and later saving the changes to PNG).

Don't worry for the former language of the program and the website: it has several translation packs.

Give it a try! I don't know if it writes on the registry, but it seems 100% portable.

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Re: Pointofix - [Screen Capture] Annotator

#7 Post by Midas »

Hi and welcome to the TPFC forums. :)

Unfortunately Pointofix doesn't fit our definition of portable software, mainly because it saves its settings to the system registry -- have a look at 'HKCU\Software\Amerigomedia\Pointofix'.

Although the author supplies a ZIP package for download (currently 'pointofix180de-20180511-direkt.zip') that doesn't require installation and can be run immediately after extraction, settings are left behind if you move to a different system.

Moreover, if you want to have Pointofix UI in a different language, you must also download the translations package (currently 'pointofix-translation-20181203.zip'), extract the one INI file corresponding to the language you want to use -- say 'pointofix_translation_en.ini' -- rename it to 'pointofix_translation.ini' and place it alongside the program executable.


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Pointofix latest version is v1.8.0, released 2017-03-01 (Google translated changelog is at translate.google.com /translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.pointofix.de/neu.php).

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Re: Pointofix - [Screen Capture] Annotator

#8 Post by guindos98 »

Midas wrote: Wed Jun 12, 2019 3:26 am Hi and welcome to the TPFC forums. :)

Unfortunately Pointofix doesn't fit our definition of portable software, mainly because it saves its settings to the system registry -- have a look at 'HKCU\Software\Amerigomedia\Pointofix'.
Thank you for your response. I didn't know the program writes to the Registry. Is there any program which I can use to notice wether a program writes to the Registry or not when used?

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Re: Pointofix - [Screen Capture] Annotator

#9 Post by Midas »

guindos98 wrote: Is there any program which I can use to notice wether a program writes to the Registry or not when used?
Myself, I use Primo (viewtopic.php?t=8164), which is a fork of Regshot.

But, as systems and OSes can vary a great deal, I advise you to have a look at viewtopic.php?t=21885 for tips and pointers regarding portability testing... 8)

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Re: Pointofix - [Screen Capture Annotator]

#10 Post by webfork »

With the caveat that there haven't been updates to this program since 2018, I came back to it because a live screen annotator is still an appealing prospect.

Steps

1. Download and extract the "one without setup" version: "pointofix180de-20180511-direkt.zip"
2. Download the language pack and extract the contents to the same location as above
3. Rename pointofix_translation_el.ini to pointofix_translation.ini
4. Launch: Pointofix.exe

Usage notes

Note that my brain was completely unable to accept that CTRL+Z was zoom in rather than Undo.

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