RE: Capturing display file images for documentation

We use Snagit from www.techsmith.com  It does a nice job and you can put a
border around the screen.
I am not sure how much it costs but I think it was pretty reasonable.

    Jim Rubino 
Senior Programmer Analyst 
FIKE CORPORATION (r) 
704 South 10th Street 
Blue Springs, Mo.  64015
Direct Dial - (816)  655-4579
Or - (816)  229-6216  Ext. 1079
 


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Reeve
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:39 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: Capturing display file images for documentation


I'm trying to capture display file images with "real" data for
documentation.  My results are lousy: the JPG images, when pasted into a
Word document, look pasty (slightly fuzzy) even though they're 200K or more.

 

Client Access uses the IBM3270 font (8 x 18).  I'm using both ScreenPrint
Platinum 4.8 and SnagIt 7 to capture the images: they're both good products,
although SnagIt appears to have more tools.  I'm not using progressive
encoding on ScreenPrint.

 

The images seem to be sharper when I go to monochrome and reverse color. The
Client Access color scheme is the standard black background, and I wonder if
this isn't causing the problem.  I'm not planning on printing the document,
so I don't have to worry about black toner.

 

Does anybody have any suggestions for CAX/ScreenPrint/SnagIt settings?  Or
this there a better product/approach to this task?

 

Thanks,

Reeve

 

 

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