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Subject:Re: The Burden of Screen Captures From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:35:26 -0500
> Two questions:
>
> 1. Is there an easier way to do this, one that I am overlooking? I can't
> imagine that Adobe or Microsoft or any other large software company have 10
> persons sitting in a room all day doing screen captures for their manuals,
> in 25 different languages?
>
> 2. If there is no easier way, does anyone know if there is there a screen
> capturing software around that creates an autonumber when you save the
> image? That would save me some time, since I save all image files (and
> document files) with a prefix + a sequential number.
>
SnagIt lets you autonumber and save without even opening the save dialog box.
Click Output > Properties, and on the Image File tabbed page you set up your
file-naming scheme.
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