RE: Clipboard copy for including Client Access 5250 screens in documentation

I use a freeware scree capture program called PrintKey that allows you to
crop the image and play with colors or capture the screen as greyscale and
do reverse image.  It seems very well behaved, and the price is right.

I'm pretty sure I downloaded it from zdnet.  Haven't gotten to use it as
much as I'd like, we have a new shop standard mandating text only screen
captures in documentation.  If you would like to try that, copy whatever
portion of the screen you need to  the clip board and create a style in your
word processor that creates a text box with whatever border you want and
paste your clipboard contents into the text box.    Rationale for this is
that it's easier to keep up with screen changes--you can edit the screen
image in your word processor.  I like the graphic image, but... 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@genfast.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 8:58 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Clipboard copy for including Client Access 5250 screens in
> documentation
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I am in the process of creating documentation for a new 
> application.  The
> documentation is to include 5250 screen shots.  My normal 
> Client Access screen
> setup is having the black background and, using the clipboard 
> to transfer the
> image into a Word document, it looks pretty nasty.  I could 
> fiddle with the
> color pallette temporarily to make it a white background and 
> change all of the
> other foreground colors, but then I lose my original settings.
> 
> Several years ago, I was in a shop that used Client Access on 
> an OS/2 PC and
> they had a shareware clipboard utility that was perfect for 
> this, it seemed to
> be written for these type of 5250 screen shots.  It allowed 
> you to set the image
> negatively, which is exactly what I need now.  It also 
> featured some basic
> graphics editing, such that I was able to clip the toolbar 
> out of the image.
> 
> Alas, now I'm on Win95.  I downloaded several shareware 
> utilities last week, but
> none of them had either of the features I mentioned above.
> 
> Is there anyone out there using something that has these features?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan Bale
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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