which tool for a screenshot?

[Gary Kline]

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 <file>" 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



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