Re: open source screen capture

Subject: Re: open source screen capture
From: "Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: thewriteguy -at- thewritespot -dot- com, barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:26:51 -0400

I don't know how you got 874 hits for screen capture when
you queried SourceForge. Their topic for screen captures
(Multimedia / Graphics / Capture / Screen Capture) contains
only 57 items. Of those 57 items, less than half are actually
tools for making screen shots, and not all of those are for
Windows. Furthermore, just because a tool is free does not
mean that it is open source, which was specifically requested
by the original poster.

But while browsing the list, I did notice an open source
Windows capture utility called "smartision ScreenCopy" that
has been pretty popular (>19K downloads), and an open
source app called "Screen View!" that claims to be "similar
to...Camtasia, but...Open Source".

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder
Intel
Parsippany, NJ


From: thewriteguy -at- thewritespot -dot- com
To: "Barry Campbell" <barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com>
CC: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: open source screen capture
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:49:55 -0500 (CDT)

I get perverse pleasure (sorry) when somebody pronounces with finality
that something doesn't exist. The best I can figure is that if they
haven't seen it, it doesn't exist for them.

Anyway, as we all know, it's a whole lot easier to prove something does
exist than prove that it doesn't.

In the case of free screen capture utilities, you'll get 874 hits when you
visit: http://www.sourceforge.net and search for "screen capture."

SourceForge is the motherlode repository/development central for open
source applications ranging from tiny desktop utilities to heavy duty
server apps.

Not all 874 of those hits will produce something that instantly meets
Kimberly's needs, but there is plenty to choose from.

Instead of "no such animal", the reality is that it's a jungle out there.








> On 6/20/06, Kimberly McClintock <kimberly -dot- mcclintock -at- openlogic -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> By chance, is anyone using anything at least as good as Snag-It that's
>> OS?
>
> No such animal.
>
> The only Open Source solution for screen capture (assuming you're in
> Windows) is to do a PrtScrn and then paste the contents of the Windows
> Clipboard into GIMP (or similar) and edit accordingly.
>
> SnagIt may be commercial and closed-source, but it provides more bang
> for the buck than anything in my software toolbox.
>
> - bc
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