Distilled wisdom: OS2 screen captures...

[Bill Downing <bdowning -at- CTHULHU -dot- CONTROL -dot- COM>]

The following is a compilation of suggestions for OS2 screen capture
software. Thanks to all who responded to my initial posting...

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I have used Snap PRO3 successfully with my work, and I like it.  Have you
tried it?

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Bill,

When I was working on a project with IBM, we had to snap OS/2 screens.
Being used to the Windows method for screen snaps, I was more than happy
to discover PMCAMERA. It's a standalone product whose interface is
basically self-explanatory. I am not sure if it is shareware, freeware, or
licensed software (it's been a while since I last used it). If you are
unable to find it elsewhere, I can send you a zipped copy of it.

Good luck,

Paul
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Bill,
We use PMCAP (PM Screen Capture) version 1.55.  I believe PMCam (PM
Camera) is the same, but newer product.  Stacey

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     Hi Bill,

     I use Collage, a relative inexpensive program. It captures the active
     window or the entire desktop. It creates BPMs and TIFs. Search for it
     on the web. I believe they have a trial version you can download.

     steve -dot- evanina -at- sciatl -dot- com

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There is no such built-in function (well, not as such: you can create a
printer object, set it to print-to-file, and set it as the default
printer, and hitting PrintScreen will dump to it) but there are plenty
of add-ons and utilities to let you do it.  Shareware and freeware
graphics apps such as PMView (my personal favorite), PMJPEG, JView, PM
Camera, and others, not only have a full-screen capture function, but
can also capture a selected window, the contents of a window, or a
selected area of the screen (PMView provides a nice screen-wide
crosshair for doing this), as well as time-delay captures.  There's
also a commercial product called PrntScrn that will let you capture the
same way as in Windows (Alt-PrntScrn).

Most of these can be found at all the standard OS/2 shareware sites;
the most common is hobbes.nmsu.edu; look in the directory
/os2/graphics.



 Your friend and mine,
 Matt
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I have used two programs for capturing OS/2 Warp screens:  PrintScreen =
and PM Camera.  PrintScreen is a commercial product and I do not know =
the name of the company.  PM Camera is an IBM product that was freeware =
when I used it.  PM Camera proved to be simple and easy to use.  I used =
it to produce screen captures for software user manuals.  It worked as =
well as HiJaak Pro.

Sorry, but I can't tell you where to download either of these.

Ben Johnson
Technical Writer II
JDEdwards World Source Company
Denver, CO

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Bill:

I'm not aware of any OS/2 screen capture programs per se, though I'm sure
there are some available.  I might suggest a couple of options:

1.  Try searching Ziff-Davis' shareware web site.  Go to
http://www5.zdnet.com, then select software from their home page.  Their
shareware page has a search function.

2.  Try searching in http://www.shareware.com

Good luck.

Greg Drew
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Warp runs most Win3.x programs. I use Screen Thief [shareware]
sometimes. You could have several programs running at once so
start Screen Thief (which will start up a Windoze session), then switch
to the app you want a pix of, get it ready for the screen capture, then
hit the keystroke combo or whatever to capture the screen. You'll find
that OS/2 works a whole lot like Windoze (much better, of course) so if
you know Win you will soon be able to navigate in OS/2.
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I have used two programs to do screen captures in OS/2 Warp:  =
PrintScreen, a commercial product ( I forget the company's name) and  PM =
Camera, an IBM shareware product.  PM Camera takes up very little disk =
space and is very easy to use.

Unfortunately, I do not know where you can download PM Camera.

Hope this helps,

Ben Johnson
Technical Writer II
JDEdwards World Source Company
Denver, CO

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