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FIBSBoard general => General Chit Chat => Topic started by: erikt on March 17, 2005, 09:15:12 AM

Title: How to generate pictures of play sit
Post by: erikt on March 17, 2005, 09:15:12 AM
I want to generate pictures in JPG format of play-situations, to include in, say WORD or OpenOffice documents. And NO, I won't settle for X's and O's ;-)
Anyone out there can suggest software to do this in a neat fashion ?
I know I can screencapure, but that is somewhat cumbersome:  it would require a lot of PaintShop work to clean then up and standardize.

Erik

Title: How to generate pictures of play sit
Post by: amarganth on March 17, 2005, 10:18:30 AM
If you are using Windows I can recommend SnagIt. You can find it here (http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/).

You can download a Trial Version. The price is $39.95. It's worth the money.
Title: How to generate pictures of play sit
Post by: webrunner on March 17, 2005, 11:12:04 AM
There is loads of free screen cpturing tools wich also allow you to capture the content of only one window.
BGBlitz is not only a nice BG program but makes very nice captures in HTML.
Title: How to generate pictures of play sit
Post by: erikt on March 17, 2005, 12:56:01 PM
I exclude plain screen capturing on previously stated grounds.

I found GNUBG, which can apparently make good pictures, allbeit .PNG. But that will pose no problems.

I looked at BGBlitz, but cannot find any picture generation from displayed board settings there.

So I'll keep checking out GNUBG... plays nice too.

Thanks for your replies.

Erik
Title: How to generate pictures of play sit
Post by: Noah on March 17, 2005, 04:35:24 PM
No need to spend that 39 dollars when u use Mac OS X  :yes:

'Command, shift up and 3' in one click will make a picture of the whole screen.

'Command, shift up and 4' in one click will make it posiible to capture a selection of your screen.

:eureka:  
Title: How to generate pictures of play sit
Post by: jonesyjt on March 18, 2005, 12:25:26 PM
Even thought you reject print screen and paint erikt, I can make a picture of my board position in less than 30 seconds with print screen and paint.  See my method if you are interested.

print screen method (http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jtjones/TUTORIAL.doc)


jonesyjt
Title: How to generate pictures of play sit
Post by: don on March 20, 2005, 05:14:51 AM
Windoze has the print-screen button which copies different things to your clipboard depending on if you use shift or alt or control with the print-screen key.  Then you can paste the image into the graphic program of your choice.  I think the options give you either the contents of the window, the whole window, or the whole screen.  I have to experiment every time because I rarely use it.

Also, gnubg can export a position as an html file, tho I've never tried it.

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