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Originally Posted by CRussel
I'm not surprised about the DPI and full screen issues -- you'd be astonished how few people know about the good, inexpensive, and highly flexible screen shot software that's out there. I have used HyperSnap for nearly 30 years. It's regularly and reliably updated, it's inexpensive ($39.95, unlimited installs for a single user), and the support is absolutely amazing.
That being said -- obtaining use rights for screen shots is a royal NIGHTMARE for one. For >200? No way. (I should add that I've routinely used HyperSnap to include automatically cropped screen shots in excess of 2,000 for a single book. But all were the actual program I was writing about. Which comes under fair use, especially if you're writing about a Microsoft product for Microsoft Press.  ) |
But, that's
not what is happening here. That's not at all what's happening. He uses a Google search, finds some image--any image, you understand--that he thinks is right for this bit of the book, and then screencaps it. It's not an instructional manual, like you and I both do! Honestly, I've wondered today if he just doesn't know how to download images from a server/browser! I'm utterly gobsmacked, I tell you.
P.S.: Charlie turned me onto Hypersnap, and it's very, very good software.
Hitch