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Subject:Re: Windows Screen Capture Tools From:Lee Kimmelman <leek -at- ULEAD -dot- COM -dot- TW> Date:Fri, 7 Mar 1997 08:58:44 +0800
I'm not sure what you mean by "strip out the color", but Screen Capture,
(Part of Ulead PhotoImpact) allows you to specify a color depth, custom
palette, and loads of other attributes for capturing screen elements. A
30-day trial version is available from
I don't think the shareware version supports TIF, but the full version, (in
Ulead PhotoImpact) certainly does. (Caveat: You must be running Windows 95
or Windows NT 3.51 or higher)
At 05:04 PM 3/6/97 -0700, you wrote:
>The new configuration of our product is creating some problems with our
>screen capture process. We are using Collage Complete which affords us
>the ability of making multiple captures and having the program
>automatically strip out the color, reduce the color depth, convert to
>the proper output format (TIF), and save and name the files according to
>a pre-defined naming scheme.
>
>However, with the new version of our product, Collage is "washing out"
>the captures when you have a window on top of another window. Also, the
>product features parent and child windows and Collage only recognizes
>the parent window as the active window. There is no option for choosing
>just an object window.
>
>Paint Shop Pro is able to capture the windows without the washout, but
>it is too time consuming to go in and change the colors/color depth, and
>name and save each one. We need these options because the authors will
>then write a script of how they captured each of the screens using
>WinRunner and then run this script for screens in Japanese, Spanish,
>Portugese, French, German, Italian, French, etc.
>
>Has anyone encountered a product similar to Collage that we might want
>to try out?
>
>
>
>Frank Tagader
>senior technical writer
>J.D. Edwards
>303.488.1645
>frank_tagader -at- jdedwards -dot- com
>
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