From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 6 13:47:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FC916A4CE for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 13:47:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB47143FD7 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 13:47:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.11.4) with ESMTP id hB6Lm9Sw074127; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 13:48:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id hB6LlnAT054640; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 13:47:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 13:47:49 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" Message-ID: <20031206214749.GA54363@tao.thought.org> References: <20031206202820.GA54315@tao.thought.org> <200312062142.33979.Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200312062142.33979.Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: which tool for a screenshot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 21:47:55 -0000 On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:42:33PM +0100, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: > On Saturday 06 December 2003 21:28, Gary Kline wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Which tool is best (easiest) to capture screenshots to > > be included in an HTML file? I need to capture several > > screen of a web app for a tutorial I've been writing. > The GIMP can take screenshots and has a nice GUI. > Alternatively you could take a look at "xwd" in combination with ImageMagick's > "convert" to create screenshots from the command line. > Many thanks! xwd is the simplest so far. I'vde used image "% image type bitmap " and it always left a whiteframe left to crop. Can you give me further help on using gimp? I have it on another server.... Which button do I press! or which -flag? gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix