Need cross-platform screen cap assistance

[Kirsten Zerbinis <salmonzerbinis -at- rogers -dot- com>]

I need a little help, and just like everyone else I have little time 
for experimentation, and no money to buy stuff.

I need to make some screen caps of software running on a Win 98 
machine, and I want them to turn into TIFF files.  Right now, I'm using 
the Print Screen command, saving big BMPs, transferring them to my 
PowerBook which is running OS X, and using Photoshop to crop and 
convert to TIFF.  It's a little laborious, and I'm losing some image 
quality.

I have tried opening my BMPs in OS X using Preview, and then using Grab 
to take a picture of that, and getting my TIFF that way.  Not 
surprisingly, that didn't work well at all.

Is there a better process I could use? Is there a good piece of 
shareware that would help me? I have tried to research image formats 
and related subjects online, but I can only seem to find material that 
I either too advanced for my current understanding, or too basic to 
tell me where I'm losing the quality.

Any help would be appreciated, on-list or off.

FYI, my final tool is PageMaker running in Classic (OS 9), and I'll be 
using a Print To PDF program to create my final PDFs. I don't know if 
you need this information to help me or not, but there you have it.

Kirsten Zerbinis
London Ontario


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