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I too thought you were stuck capturing the full width, then I
browsed SnagIt's FAQ and saw:
<quote>
What do I do to capture only the part of the window I want?
With AutoScroll enabled, capturing a region will always extend
the entire horizontal width of the window. If you need to
select a horizontal region, there are two solutions:
Enable the Preview Window. The Preview Window supports
horizontal and vertical scrolling cropping.
Use Custom Scroll -- Input>Advanced>Custom Scroll. Custom
Scroll allows you to define a scroll area that does not
extend the entire horizontal width of the window
<end quote>
Custom Scroll lets you define a rectangle on the screen that is
less than screen width. Then, you press the down arrow on the
scrollbar (outside of that defined rectangle) and you capture
everything that scrolls through the rectangle and nothing else.
(I tested it on SnagIt's own FAQ page and it works!)
Jim Shaeffer (jims -at- spsi -dot- com)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tammy VanBoening [mailto:Tammy -dot- VanBoening -at- netRegulus -dot- com]
>
> I am new to SnagIt and am struggling with what appears to be
> a very simple function. I purchased SnagIt so that I could
> scroll and take screencaptures of very large Web pages (for
> a Web-based application for which I am writing end-user
> documentation).
> On one of these web pages, I have three columns of
> information. The columns span the Web page horizontally
> and are quite long.
> Within each column are sub-headers dividing the information
> into chunks if you will.
> I want to capture each of these "chunks" on an individual basis.
> I select the Region option in SnagIt and turn on AutoScroll.
> When I do this, I cannot for the life of me prevent SnagIt from
> highlighting the window entire area covering all three columns.
> I can scroll to the chunk I want for example in Column 2,
> but other parts of Column 1 and Column 3 also are also part
> of the capture.
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