LCD graphic for user manuals

[wjsmarine]

Hi Everyone,

I'm in the process of writing a User Manual for one of my fabrications employing a 16x4 LCD, but have hit a roadblock when it comes to showing a graphic/picture of the various screens.

Short of taking some digital pictures where the flash is a problem, focus, etc, does anyone have any suggestions for software that may be available to draw these by hand and then paste into my Word/PDF manual? There must be a way because I've seen some very nice examples in other manuals.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Cheers,
Bill

[GrandPa]

Bill,

You can use LCD fonts, not that hard to find I think. Then just put a green background for the text. Very easy to do with MS Word.

http://www.spinwardstars.com/scrfonts/lcd.html
http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=302
http://www.acidfonts.com/lcdfonts2.htm
etc etc etc...

J-P

[wjsmarine]

Hi GrandPa,

That did the trick, thank you.

Bill

[rmteo]

I like to use the Oshonsoft PIC simulator to get really professional looking results.

[shawnwilliams]

Hi.
I think you can do that simply by using MS word. Try to do that and use the LCD fonts.
Hope it will work.