How do you save captures outside the IDS?

SteveS · April 8, 2008

I was admiring Kieth's reproduction of the screen capture in his "Bad HPOP?" thread and wondering how you guys are saving the Capture screens to another location. When I go to the "Select" button and "Select Printer and Print" I have the option to choose Windows XLS. However, when I saved the file on our server and then attempted to open it from another PC it didn't have the Windows program (XLS) that could open it.

My office manager suggested that I save as an Adobe file and then it could be opened with any PC that has the free Acrobat software. If I can get it to save as a file that any of our PCs can open then I can attach the Capture to the work order and include it in the vehicle history. Is anybody doing anything like that?

Thanks!

Steve

Keith Browning · April 8, 2008

A few of us have posted a nice collection of screenshots. I don't know how the other guys do it but I use "control+alt+printScrn" buttons which takes the screen shot and puts it in Windows clipboard. Then I open up Paint and "paste" the image and save it. I usually edit the images in a different program and save them as .jpeg images. You can use that method with pretty much any image editing program. I save all these screenshots on my work IDS but I eventually burn them onto a CD. Many times I will email them to myself for immediate access when I get home, where all the DTS-webmaster magic happens.

So, now that you know hoe to do it, you too can post screenshots by adding them as a file attachment or uploading them to our PhotoPost and insert them into a post. In PhotoPost, I request that file sizes be kept low so all images are resized. Using image compression and cropping when possible helps prevent the server from filling up too fast.

Bruce Amacker · April 8, 2008

There are a lot of programs that can do this, and possibly some free ones. If you push the "Print Screen" button on your PC, it copies the monitor display to Windows Clipboard, where it can be pasted into a MSWord or any word processing program document.

I use a $40 program called ACDSEE that not only changes the monitor display into a JPEG, but also has a great photo browser and even better photo editor program. It is very user friendly and can do 90% of what PhotoChop does. I have edited many thousands of pictures for my programs with this simple, user friendly program.

Explore your computer for a photo program, it may have one that came free with other software or when new. If it does, look in the help files and see if it has a Print Screen convertor. Let us know and perhaps one of us will know if will do what you want. Meanwhile, experiment with the PrintScreen button and MSWord.

Good Luck!

PS: Just got back from Seattle, Spokane, and Bremerton for WSDOT. Got in game 2 at Safeco, too, but the M's lost. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif

PPS: WSAFC Yakima in Sep: 3 days of 7.3/6.0 PSD and one day of Navistar Engine Controls.

Didja get your IDS yet?

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SteveS · April 9, 2008

Thanks, guys!

Keith, I saw that the screen that you posted was a jpeg and I think that all the PCs that I'd need to be able to open anything in our history could probably open a jpeg.

Bruce, I know that some of the terminals here do not have Word and there are only a couple that have actual photo software (I've been using MS Digital Image Pro 9 as this is what our office manager uses, have MS Pro 10 on the IDS laptop), although once it is stored any terminal should be open a jpeg.

Yes, we have the IDS now and I LOVE IT! What a great tool! I am starting to get familiar with it. If I were going to complain it would be that there is not a description box that pops up when you place the pointer on a button the way that Windows does. After I remember where everything is that won't be an issue.

I still have the time marked on the calendar and planning to attend the classes. Two of us attended Mike Cleary's one day class at ASA's weekend event a week and a half ago (I hope my boss doesn't think that that is enough!) and I picked up some good info. You probably had a good time to be in the PNW, we had snow a couple weeks ago, odd for us at this time of year. Did you have Justin Pulliam in your WSDOT classes? He was a co-worker until he got the state job based in Olympia.

Anyway, thanks a lot guys, I have some direction and a little experiemnting to do.

Bruce Amacker · April 9, 2008

Thanks, guys!

there are only a couple that have actual photo software (I've been using MS Digital Image Pro 9 as this is what our office manager uses, have MS Pro 10 on the IDS laptop), although once it is stored any terminal should be open a jpeg.

Google has a free video editing software package that you might try. I saw it while downloading the Google toolbar onto my new PC.

Yes, we have the IDS now and I LOVE IT! What a great tool!

You ain't $hitting. It's the best scan tool I ever used.

I am starting to get familiar with it. If I were going to complain it would be that there is not a description box that pops up when you place the pointer on a button the way that Windows does.

Hold the button down and it tells you at the bottom.

You probably had a good time to be in the PNW, we had snow a couple weeks ago, odd for us at this time of year.

We saw snow at the top of the Snoqualmie Pass, and stopped and poked around a bit. They had 600+" of snow this year at the pass. That's FIFTY FEET! There is snow piled there nearly 20 FEET high still, and I have pics to prove it. It is unreal. I never saw so much in my whole life.

Did you have Justin Pulliam in your WSDOT classes? He was a co-worker until he got the state job based in Olympia.

Don't recognize the name. Did Port Orchard and Spokane, which was two districts out of six. He may have been in another district.

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SteveS · April 9, 2008

Awesome! I got it to work! With the capture open I pressed Ctrl Alt PrtSc to put it on the clipboard, opened the Digital Image program and pasted it there. I then had the ability to put it on our server as a jpeg and open it from any station on the network. It defaulted to a 1000 something x 600 something size file that I could probably reduce a little further without loosing anything.

Thanks again, when I get soemthing interesting I'll be sure to share.

Steve

Oh yeah, it was an incredible snow season in the mountains. We're hoping that it melts slowly so that we don't have flooding again this year.

eastendpowerstroke · April 9, 2008

I use IRFANVIEW it's free and easy to use you can save the screen shot as any type file you want and upload it to the photo post provided by Keith for viewing in a post.

http://www.irfanview.com/