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Subject:Re: Problems with FullShot on NT 4.0 From:"John Fleming" <johnf -at- ecn -dot- ab -dot- ca> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:40:14 -0600
I've done a few screen captures along the way with FullShot on an NT.
Most of the screen shots were of the active window of the application
I was documenting. In a related project, I also used some screen
shorts that were done in Windows 2000, also using (I believe)
FullShot.
We saved our screen shots as .bmp files, and later imported them into
both ForeHelp and Word without problem.
Might be a workaround you could try.
> Subject: Problems with FullShot on NT 4.0
> From: Karen Casemier <karen -dot- casemier -at- provia -dot- com>
> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:13:29 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 14
> Are any of you using FullShot on NT? I'm having a problem saving
certain
> types of screen capture to .gif format. I'm capturing screens on a
terminal
> emulator; if I capture an entire screen, I can save to .gif no
problem.
> However, if I capture a partial screen (or if I capture a whole
screen and
> crop it), there is something wrong with the resulting .gif (it is
not
> recognized as a valid file by RoboHTML, and it does not display at
all in my
> browser - just a big black box).
> Any suggestions? I don't have any problems with .jpg, but I would
prefer to
> use .gif files, as the quality is better.
> Karen R. Casemier
> Senior Technical Writer
> Provia Software
> karen -dot- casemier -at- provia -dot- com
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John Fleming
Edmonton, Alberta
email: johnf -at- ecn -dot- ab -dot- ca
