trying to post an image

[Tim O'Donnell]

i use mwsnap it is freeware, and is very good...it can be set to autosave you screen captures as a bmp, jpg, gif, png or tiff...I use it to do captures for the animated gifs i post

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

[George Godwin]

Curt - Try Tim's suggestion of 'mwsnap' for a screen capture tool. It looks to be a better designed utility with more features than Gadwin Printscreen, although I found Gadwin Printscreen to be good for a freeware utility. Thanks Tim, for suggesting 'mwsnap'.

[Curtis Johnson]

Thanks Tim, George - I will try that one.

[Allen Brown]

Tim/George,

I know the price is hard to beat, but is it substantially "more-better" than just using "Print Screen" on the keyboard, and pasting into a picture editing program?

[Allen42acj]

Allen
I use Screen Shot Deluxe 4 ,came free with other software.It gives you more choices of what to capture=the hole screen,just the window your using.If you have split screen you can get both..If you have any from BorderBund,look in extras..(Printshop)
I got a capture of a rendering of my house in CA with everything on the screen to add to the screen on the monitor in the rendering..

[ambrozac]

Allen Brown,

The big advantage of mwsnap to me, is that you can capture any portion of the screen and save as a gif instead of jpg, if you want. You don't have to go to a paint program and can post directly here.

[Tim O'Donnell]

Tim/George,

I know the price is hard to beat, but is it substantially "more-better" than just using "Print Screen" on the keyboard, and pasting into a picture editing program?

you do not even need a paint program if you set up and use MWSnap correctly...you can use a multitude of capture options and image types for captures...

if you right click on images>properties i have posted here, often you will find them using the auto naming convention I have set up when using mwsnap...(MWSnap[yy-mm-dd, hh_nn_ss].[ext])

[George Godwin]

To Allen Brown, - Cliff gave some of the main reasons. These capture programs are more versatile. For example, you can save several captures in a row and the software will save them in a numbered sequence or include the date in the saved name and you can send them to any folder you choose. You can then deal with the captures in a paint program at a later time. On some websites for example, that utilize mainly flash-file-format images, I use screenshots to save portions of the screens and may do several captures in a short period of time that I will work on later.

[Allen Brown]

OK, you guys sold me. It is definitely inconvinient to only put one screenshot on the clipboard at a time.

Thanks for the info.

AB

[Allen Brown]

OK John, can you detail your exact steps?

[alobartn]

Ditto that!

[John Longstreet]

Ok, after doing some testing it looks like the maximum width and height on a .jpg image is set to 100x100. I have not tested the other formats so I am not sure if it is just on the .jpg files or if this is on others as well.

This may be a bug in the system or it may be that Chief has it set to this...at any rate hopefully CA is monitoring this forum and can get this fixed soon.

[George Godwin]

Maybe the size setting for jpegs is erroneously set for 100 pixels in size instead of 100kb.

[alobartn]

Has anyone from Chief chimed in on any threads regarding the bugs in the V Bulletin? There have been many questions and comments since its reintroduction, and I have not yet noticed a forthcoming explanation from the company. Am I missing it? Or has there been some talk that I'm not aware of?

[Allen Brown]

Adam, I think they are as clueless as we are, and are hoping we will figure it out for them. Dermot Dempsey would be a very likely person to respond to this issue, and even though the search function is almost useless, you can search by user, and he has not:

http://www.chiefarchitect.com/chieft...?searchid=1712