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Subject:Re: Icon Editors From:Ed Gregory <edgregory -at- HOME -dot- NET> Date:Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:17:18 -0600
If all you are doing is placing screen icons in a text document, you can:
1. Download a demo copy of Snagit32, which will let you capture icons and
save them in whatever format you wish.
2. Use Snagit's basic editing tools, or any other graphics editor, to clean
up the icon for priting on (probably) your b&w laser.
3. Download Paintshop Pro, a great basic editor, and use its built-in
screen capture to grab the icons and clean them up.
My predecessors on this major project used Print Screen, Pasted the cruddy
BMP image into MS Paint, and clipped around it. The result is very muddy,
but took no special skills or software.
The simplest way is Snagit, which allows you to capture and edit it before
saving it to disk.
Heck, buy Snagit. It''s inexpensive and will serve you well.
