Re: XP Professional: Not as bad as I expected, but still VERY primitive
- From: "ed" <news_test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:49:16 GMT
In news:alangbaker-6C42C9.16324929062006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Alan Baker <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> typed:
In article <1151619052.602565.216270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<snip>
"ed" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Things like screen capture (needed to write product mamuals) are low
resolution and look terrible compared to those from the Mac.
it takes an exact bitmap of whatever's on the screen, at the
resolution of your screen- unless something's changed recently in os
x, i'm pretty sure that's exactly what macs do as well...
There's been no recent change, but you're misinformed.
The screen shots for Mac OS X can be stored in a variety of formats,
including PDF. PDF's use scalable vector graphics...
sure, they can be STORED in a variety of formats, but unless the operating
system is rendering off screen at a higher resolution, it doesn't matter
that much if it's doing a bitmap grab at the screen resolution and storing
in a vector format (it helps for some things, but for screen captures for
product manuals, not so much).
Not only
that but XP doesn't seem to offer the screen capture options (like
drag
-and-capture) that the Mac offers.
you can use alt-printscreen for grabbing just an active window
though,
an option i wish the mac had... if you need to go a lot of screen
Cmd-shift-4, then spacebar.
cool, didn't know that. thanks.
captures on windows though, buy yourself a copy of snagit
(http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp) for $40 (or at least give the
free version a try). waaaay better than the default for both windows
and macs.
Have you looked at the "Grab" application in Mac OS X?
You might want to look at SnapzPro for Mac OS X. $29 if you only want
stills, $69 if you want movies, too.
not nearly as cool as snagit- the nice thing about snagit, especially for
tech docs, are that it can rip apart just about any window to grab exactly
what you want without having to do any editing or cropping after the fact,
and no need to do a drag selection (which probably isn't going to be exact).
need a button, toolbar, window, icon, an entire region in a scrollpane, etc,
etc, snagit will grab it.
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I also find networking STILL unnecessirily complex and hard to
set-up. There is a seemingly endless merry-go-round of set-up
windows which if followed take you round and round and round the
same set of windows over and over. I kept hoping that one of them
would yield a brass ring, but no such luck.
um, yeah, if you're going through the same windows over and over,
you're doing something wrong, and that's why it's seeming so complex.
you're missing something easy and obvious; networking in xp is pretty
straightforward.
Not compared to Mac OS X. Not even close.
this topics been hashed to death, and it's simply not that hard on xp. and
yes, it's 'close', unless os x does it all automagically (it doesn't).
.
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