Screen shots

Robin2 · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 12:34 am Post subject: Screen shots

Can someone please tell me how to capture an image from my PDA when I have navigation software running, and at a later time transfer the image to my PC (either by reading it from a storage card, or via Active Sync)
Robin

igurevich38 · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 2:06 am Post subject:

There are 2 good tools.

This one will capture the screens from the PDA straight from the PC while your Active Sync is running:
http://www.newmad.se/software.asp

Pocket ScreenSnap 5.0 will do it on the PDA and save the file as a BMP on the PDA, which later you can copy to the PC:
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=170

DavidW · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 3:52 am Post subject:

I don't use either of these programs (I tend to use SOTI's Pocket Controller - Professional), but I particularly like the first option's support of PNG.

I've found that Pocket PC screenshots tend to be the smallest in PNG format, and PNG doesn't have the loss of quality of JPEG for this application.

David

Tim Buxton · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 6:32 am Post subject:

And you can get a freeware one here.

Certain iPAQ models, like the 3970 and 5555 have this built in, too.
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Tim

Talkingbollox · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 10:39 am Post subject:

I use the free pocket Quick View (PQView), whcih is an image viewing program.

It's got an option to take a screen shot after a definable length of time, which means that you have to switch to the program/screen that you want captured within the time defined to enable it to capture the screenshot. Not ideal but works for me.

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