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I'm interested in using CaptureProfessional to take screen shots, in the
form of bitmaps, that will then be inserted in our manuals. We prepare them
using Doc-2-Help. These are the programs I'm being asked to use; at the
moment alternatives aren't a possibility.
CaptureProfessional appears to be producing the images correctly. Yet when
I insert them in the manual, I get only a reference to an image (in the form
of {ewl d2htls32.dll, D2H_256Color, cap013.bmp} or else a blank area).
In the message I recognize what looks like a device driver (the .dll) and
the name of the file I'm trying to insert (cap013.bmp), causing me to think
this is a ref to the image that the file plans to pull when it prints. This
is just a guess.
CaptureProfessional's support has not had an answer; the mfgr of Doc-2-Help
hasn't answered yet.
My boss wants a solution ASAP; has anyone butted heads against this pair of
programs?
