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"Okay, Uncle Dan, I want a good bedtime story tonight," Caroline solemnly
informed him.
"Well, this one's even a true story, so of course it'll be good," he
began.
"When I started technical writing, I used a keyboard button called 'Print
Screen'. This falsely named key doesn't even send screens to the printer
- it sends them to the clipboard. First, you'd paste your image into
Word, then send it to the printer. To edit it first, you'd have to paste
it into Paint, painstakingly crop it, take your new image and paste it
into Word, and then print it. Tedious work, all of it."
"With Print Screen, I couldn't capture scrolling web pages. I couldn't
specify what region of the screen I wanted to capture. I couldn't create
and store my most frequently used settings. I couldn't even directly
send my capture to a file, an e-mail, or the web!" he thundered.
"No!" Caroline replied, caught up in his enthusiasm. "What happened?"
"I was depressed, slightly overweight, and considered becoming a
guitarist. But then, I discovered SnagIt. I could do all that with
SnagIt and more - SnagIt lets you use filters to edit and annotate images
as you capture. You can even send captures simultaneously to multiple
outputs. You can also try it for free before purchasing," Dan said, his
eyes gleaming.
"The Print Screen key is dead to me," he finished to her appreciative
applause.
As he wished her pleasant dreams, he thought of his own dreams. His wish
was that someday - yes - someday, he would play in integral part in
replacing the Print Screen key with a key that read: "SnagIt - Can your
Print Screen key do this?"
But for now, Dan was content to do his part by spreading his message to
the youth of the world.
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