Re: Screen shots

[Dawn-Marie Oliver <d3g578 -at- XANTHIA -dot- PNL -dot- GOV>]

 >  I write PC documentation using a Mac, and have always thought there must be
 >  an easy way to convert PC screen shots into graphic files for easier sizing
 >  and to reduce the chance of an element from moving. When I do prntofile
 >  commands on the PC and then import them to Pagemaker or a word-processor for
 >  the Mac, the ASCII border characters come out as different characters, and
 >  the search and replace takes just as long as retyping the whole screen, whic
 >  is what I am doing right now.
 >
 >  Does anyone have any ideas or useful techniques that address this problem?
 Or
 >  know of any software that can "shoot and save" the screens?
 >

I don't know if this will help you.

I write PC/Windows documentation, and I take pretty pictures of the screen
with a tool called FullShot.  It can "shoot" a picture of the screen, and
save it as:

.BMP
.CLP
.DIB
.GIF
.PCX
.RLE
.TIF
.WPG

It also will translate color to black and white, according to your
specifications.  I have found it to be the _handiest_ program I've ever found.
It's from InBit software, at about $100 u.s. fund.

You can get a fully functioning demo (save/paste is disabled in the demo)
of this off of anonymous ftp at:

ftp.cc.monash.edu.au
cd pub/win3/demo
fshtdemo.zip

Hope this helps!

Dawn-Marie Oliver
d3g578 -at- xanthia -dot- pnl -dot- gov