Full Version: gadwin print screen new version
From: logojohn [#1]
19 Aug 2006
To: ALL
is much improved.
It can be downloaded free at:
http://www.gadwin.com/download/
This works similar to the [prt scr] key to capture any still image from a monitor for pasting into a graphics program or directly as a .jpg image.
But instead of capturing the whole monitor(or both dual monitors), this lets you select a single window or better yet, a rectangle area you draw a box around.
The new version will now let you select an area on a second monitor. You can also capture directly to the clipboard for pasting into coreldraw or directly to a folder as a jpg for attaching to an email with a specified size.
The quality is surprisingly good, especially if you zoom in as big as possible.
Someone wanted an article that was posted on a website sublimated to a unisub plaque. They had the html file, but for some reason it was not properly formatted when imported into coreldraw.
I just went to the website and caputed the whole thing with gadwin and pasted into coreldraw. There was very small text and pictures, but it was still clear enough for sublimation. Yes to the copyright concerned members, they were the owner of the site and content.
Another time a newspaper wanted some articles put on plaques. Their pdf file would not print correctly from acrobat or import corectly in coreldraw. The multi-columns were converted into one wide one.
The whole thing at regular size was not good enough quality to print.
I zoomed in and captured the document in 2-3 parts, cropping, pasting and aligning to the correct printing size in coreldraw. The finished plaque was very readable with newspaper size printing.
I have also found that this works better for making proofs as .jpgs for people that want them emailed.
Xenetech and corel can export jpg or bmp. But in Xenetech if you have something set to reverse or sideways such as acrylic, it will show on the screen normally but print or export reversed as it would laser. It can also be used with any engraving program that might not have a export as long as it displays the layout.
With gadwin you can select the area from the display without undoing the reverse. I also like to include the top and side rulers in the capture so it is obvious what the actual size is. I have vector shapes for odd shaped items so people can see how it lays on the engraving area.
I guess if you wanted to get fancy, you could even put a bmp of the actual product behind it if you were making a jpg.
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EDITED: 19 Aug 2006 by LOGOJOHN
From: Dave Jones (DAVERJ) [#2]
19 Aug 2006
To: logojohn [#1] 19 Aug 2006
Just a "for what it's worth": Windows does let you capture a single window by useing ALT - PrintScrn.
Also re: PDFs, If you have Acrobat (not just Reader), you can use the camera image capture icon there to capture very high resolution without doing it in sections and stitching. If you zoom in on a document and then click the camera icon you can drag a box around anything, including things much wider than what is on the screen. I used this recently to get a "screen" cap of a very detailed line drawing in a PDF file, rather than try to select and copy the vectors (I needed a raster image for what I was doing in Photoshop). I zoomed way in and then dragged the camera tool until the screen scrolled to the other end of what I wanted and ended up with a 9000 pixel wide capture that I pasted into a new window in Photoshop.
Just a couple of tips for capturing the screen with what you might already have.