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Subject:Re: Windows NT screen capture From:Todd Snarr <todd_snarr -at- AUTOSOFT -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 12 Aug 1998 07:36:16 -0600
Horace Smith writes:
>A colleague of mine needs a screen-capture tool for Windows NT. I guess
>it's for program development since I don't think he's a writer.
>
>Any suggestions?
For starters I would try Paint (which is already included with NT). Display
the window or dialog box in your application, press ALT + Print Screen,
open Paint, and then click Paste. Cut out all excess page around the screen
(crop it) and then save it as a 256 color bitmap (not a 24-bit bitmap).
24-bit screens take more space.
All our engineers here use this method to capture screens for their design
and testing documents. I now use this method for all screens in our user
guides. I have the screen capture utility provided with RoboHelp, but I
don't use it anymore...Paint works just as fine.
Todd Snarr
Senior Technical Writer
Auto-Soft Corporation
Salt Lake City, UT
todd_snarr -at- autosoft -dot- com
