[GRLUG] NOT LINUX

Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com
Sun Jan 16 18:15:45 EST 2011


My usual approach:

PrtScn

Run MS Paint. (You can paste it into Gimp for Windows if you like.)

Paste.

Save as PNG.

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Richard Maloley II
<richard at rrcomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
> I personally use a program called Greenshot - I believe that it may be
> opensource. Allows you to select a certain area of your screen and can save
> to clipboard or a file.
> http://getgreenshot.org/
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
> "I've lost a machine... Literally _lost_. It responds to ping, it works
> completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is."
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Give that man a Kewpie doll!
>> Snip is dead on - like the screenshot
>> feature I use in GIMP.  Produces a
>> PNG file.
>> I tried using print, and gave the file
>> and extension of TIF.  But someone
>> here suggested the print feature creates
>> a raster file.  Anyway,  a file was indeed
>> created with the extension TIF, but I got
>> an error having to do with a bad magic
>> number when I tried to open it using GIMP.
>> gmail just said it couldn't "open the file at
>> this time."
>> I'd like to know what the problem is, just
>> in case the commercial world gets M$ to
>> stop supplying snip, but for now it's the
>> ideal solution for what I want.
>> As usual, my thanks for a whole spectrum
>> of possible approaches.  GRLUG rocks!
>>     -- Bob
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Joseph McLaughlin <jwm8351 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> There is a new program in win 7 called snip - it will do the screen
>>> capture.!!
>>>
>>> There is still a bug in the program must use RAID!
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area."
>>> <grlug at grlug.org>
>>> Sent: Sun, January 16, 2011 2:41:46 PM
>>> Subject: [GRLUG] NOT LINUX
>>>
>>> I've been backed in to a corner in which
>>> I needed to run a package on windoz,
>>> or nothing.
>>> The question here is, does anyone know
>>> of a screen capture program already on
>>> windoz 7, or a free, dependable one I can
>>> download?
>>> Oh, while I'm at it, does anyone know of a
>>> free package that provides some
>>> Linux-Unix commands under windoz 7?
>>> Way back at win98 I used something
>>> called MKS Toolkit.  A wonderful product
>>> that made windoz look just like Linux.
>>> But it's expensive.  For windoz XP it was
>>> well over $500 for the package.
>>> This is (hopefully) a one time thing, so I
>>> don't want to get in to the notion of running
>>> windoz 7 under Linux in some way, if this
>>> can be done.
>>>    -- Bob
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