Screen Capture (Again!)

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I know this has been beaten to death before and I also didn’t want to clutter up “another thread” currently active in Pix Place with this question. I have been using ClipMate for many years as my clipboard enhancer program and have no complaints about it. I know, there are others, but here’s the question. More and more, here in The Lounge, I’m learning that I’m behind the times in not having a dedicated screen capture program. Without repeating URLs that are already in other posts, here’s a list of what I’ve seen mentioned in The Lounge:

SnagIt
Screen Grabber
Howie’s Screen Capture
Hard Copy (German)
Hard Copy Pro (doesn’t appear to be from the same folks)

Does anyone know if any or all of the above will co-exist nicely with my fave ClipMate? Sheesh, I hate to give it up for I use it EVERY DAY, constantly…..

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Hard Copy (German)
Hard Copy Pro (doesn’t appear to be from the same folks)

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Hardcopy

Hardcopy Pro

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Ah! I see what you mean.
I thought you were referring to the unregistered and registered version of the German one – the latter of which (I believe) comes with reasonable instructions in English.

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I dunno Al, I have never really felt the need for a dedicated screen capture program – ALT+Print Screen always does the job for me, and then I can drop into Microsoft Photo Editor and paste it as a new image. For the number of screen shots that I take, that method is the simplest and lowest cost solution, and doesn’t require any additional software. Of course, you can always dump the screen into any graphics application, but Photo Editor is handy and lightweight.

Just my .

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Mark, trust you to come up with a super neat trick. I could not get ALT+Print Screen to work on my old 98SE, but will sure give it a try on the notebooks/laptops running XP that I use. Thanks for the info, as always useful and interesting.

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Hi Cyberdance,
The alt-printscreen works on my win98se computers. What program are you pasting it to?

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Hey guys, it was my stupidity, I thought that ALT+Print Screen or just Print Screen meant it would send the screen image directly to the printer, BUUUUUUUUT having been asked what program I am trying to “paste” the image to, made me realize I could find it by opening Word and pasting it there! That’s so cool!

I also have VuePro, though I don’t use it as my default picture program, it certainly does work which is also a very quick trick to editing the screen shot size and type. Excellent tip – thank you, thank you!

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These “ALT+Print Screen or just Print Screen” are carry overs from the DOS and mainframe time period. These same keys workd on MOST computers of that time, along with “Ctrl+p” for Print and etc.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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PrtScn alone sends an image of the entire screen to the clipboard, but Alt-PrtScrn sends only the active (focus) window to the clipboard, if there is one.

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But in the DOS days this key would send the screen to the printer, this was BEFORE Windows 95.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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DOS? Who remembers DOS any more?

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I do. I still have an ancient laptop with dos 3.2 on it. And no way to upgrade to dos 6 or something better with the 720 floppy drive. My grandson plays the old Zork and other infocom text games on it. Remember those?

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Zork? Wow! A working copy of that classic!! So that makes to of us, John…. I have to confess, I run a Commodore 64 emulator every now and again to play a yet older game: Bruce Lee!

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Got you beat…

I pull out my VIC 20 to play Jupiter Lander, Radar Rat Race and Cosmic Cruncher on a regular basis…

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Yes, Chris, but you are also a curling addict. There’s just no accounting for some tastes!

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Speaking of which… I got a great curling game for my PC at Christmas…. Takeout Weight Curling. It’s great! I’ve already won a bonspiel (at the beginner level of course).

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I just love the way members a post! …from Screen Capture to old systems and games …keep it up!

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Ooooooh, this is gonna degrade into flame wars over the Atari 2600! Trade you Pac-Man for Kaboom!

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Curling is cool. I play bagpipes at curling matches from time time. I stay off that slippery ice though. The computer game looks much safer. This thread seems to go just about everywhere doesn’t it?

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Wow I didn’t know you could do that. I just tried it and it works in my vueprint/vuepro picture program too. I just click paste and there it is. Then I can save to jpg or whatever. Thanks for the tip. I’m going to use this a lot.

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Hey, excellent news that it’s working for you! It should work in any program, because ALT+Print Screen (or just Print Screen by itself) copies the active window (or entire display) to the Windows clipboard. Thus, any clipboard-aware program that you run should be able to handle it.

Cheers!

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A good screen capture program will do a lot more than just let you duplicate alt-printscreen functionality. Take a look at HyperSnap at http://www.hypersnap.com/%5B/url%5D.

This program can capture any part of a screen (regions), it can scroll most windows and capture everything there, even if it is longer than your screen, capture transparent windows, can append captures together, can capture DirectX displays, can capture from MPG files, can crop, modify colors and on and on. HyperSnap is equivalent to SnagIt.

I’ve been using HyperSnap for years and it has been a great program with very good support when there were problems. IMO, both HyperSnap and SnagIt have gotten away from being just capture programs, having added many functions that fall into the realm of image editing programs. Consequently, the cost of each has risen significantly with all these new (and often superfluous) features. HyperSanp is now $35, and Snagit is $40, both of which IMO, is a about $15-20 too pricey.

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I used to use HyperSnap for special things, such as capturing DirectDraw and other hard to capture images. In fact, I still have an old licensed copy sitting around somewhere, but I’ve not installed it in quite some time, because my screen capture needs aren’t that great that I need a separate application to do it for me.

I do agree that it’s an excellent program – SnagIt, I’ve never tried.

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Not sure exactly what you are looking for but I have been using Power Grab. Very easy to use & FREE.

http://www.swmakers.com/eng/goods/powertoys.asp%5B/url%5D

In their own words:
“Power Grab 1.0 – pictures and movies grabbing software

Software Makers Group introduces Power Grab – extremely useful and amaizingly small software, which is used in screenshots creation. Power Grab produces not only bitmaps (supported filetypes are: BMP, JPEG, PNG) but AVI files with compression by any available on your PC codec too. Small size and friendly interface helps this software became popular. “

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Bernie
You’ve got an extra ‘http//’ in your link. Thought you had cured that stutter

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I did use to to stutter when I was a kid, may be it returns with ould age

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With ould age anything is possible. Downloaded the program and besides some ‘interesting’ English seems to be quite good. Thanks for your recommendation.

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