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What is the best way to create legible screen shots from Windows and MS Office to include in training materials (Word, PDF or HTML documents)? Using PrintScreen and dumping a bitmap image into Word is very inflexible and using a graphics program I can't reduce the image size and keep it legible. There must be a trick here! Perhaps I'm using the wrong type of image file.

Also, if I want to sell these materials, are the screenshots actually copyrighted by Microsoft since it's their software?
Nigel Harris

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By Accounting WEB
09th Nov 2001 11:01

Picture this is the answer
Picture This is what we use, which is excellent for capturing part of a screen shot -unfortunately it comes ready-installed on the PC's that use so I have no idea where to get a copy.

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By Accounting WEB
08th Nov 2001 16:15

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Nigel
I am by no means a graphics expert but I agree that PrintScreen is not adequate for screen captures. I use an excellent wee program called Snagit which you can download for a free 30 day trail from www.techsmith.com. It offers you the flexibility select specific areas of the program and images can be scaled easily with the option to save in whatever graphics file format you require.
Diane

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By neileg
08th Nov 2001 16:26

Paintshop Pro is an excellent graphics program and also does screen capture. You can get it as shareware on most magazine coverdisks, or as a download.

When I wrote for magazines, we used TIFF files as a good compromise between size, quaility and ease of manipulation. I think the basic file produced by PrintScrn is a BMP bitmap. These don't work well with Word.

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By AnonymousUser
08th Nov 2001 21:19

ALT-PrintScreen is the best

Diane suggested Print Screen and it is fine. However, if you use ALT-PrintScreen then you get the screen capture of the current window which could be the dialog box or whatever.

Once you have done the ALT-PrintScreen, you go to your main document and PASTE the clipboard contents.

Hope this helps.

Jay Tanna

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By cbales
08th Nov 2001 17:28

Microsoft copyrights
Nigel
Follow this URL -
http://www.microsoft.com/permission/

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