Screen capture to poster

[Al Brassell]

I need to produce a poster for our trade show. The content of the poster needs to be screen shots of our application. Is there any known software or strategies for handling this?

Thanks,

Al

[Phosąfour dots]

Full-monitor screenshots?

Shots of smaller application windows, dialogues or menus?

Please provide some physical dimensions (i.e.: inches W × inches H) you wish for these items to appear. For example: If a dialogue box captures at 300pxW × 400pxH, how big in INCHES (or cm) do you want it to print at?

Understand that for large/grand format printing often you can get away with printing at 72dpi, or even 36 dpi, because they're usually viewed from a distance of 4 feet or more.

Screenshots are tough to enlarge to any great magnification because the pixel data just doesn't exist.

If you want that 300pxW × 400pxH dialogue box to appear crystal clear when printed at 48 inches W × 64 inches H, it just isn't going to happen.

[Bart_...@adobeforums.com]

If you have Vista, use the 'Snipping Tool', it is a Windows Accessory.

[Phosąfour dots]

I like the freeform option for the snipping tool.

The Mac OS has had most of the rest of it covered for quite awhile; freeform would be a nice addition.

[John Joslin]

Even the Snipping tool (which is pretty good) is missing the capture of fly-out menus (which tend to fly back in).

I use SnagIt from <http://www.techsmith.com/> for the tricky bits.

[Phosąfour dots]

And OS X native screengrabs omit cursors. I have a GIF file with them all assembled, ready for copy/pasting when need be.

It comes in handy.
<http://home.comcast.net/~phoz/bbs/PSicons.gif>

But it DOES grab flyouts:
<http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1OG8TEFlS0OcSIsmNSkKu44t5MHG>

[Al Brassell]

The poster I have to make is 38" 26". I know when I capture a screen it is going to be far smaller than that. I also know that when i Resize the graphic to fit the poster it will degrade badly. I was just hoping that there was some technology marvel or some little known technique that would allow me to accomplish this. I will now have to painstakingly rebuild these pages as vector graphics.

Thanks,

Al

[Silkr...@adobeforums.com]

Well what did you use to create the UI? perhaps that program can generate higher resolution prints.

[Al Brassell]

I will use CorelDRAW to recreate the UI. I will export the final image as a .eps file and place it in an InDesign document. I'll resize it and apply whatever parameters the print shop tells me. I always consult with them before delivering my "camera-ready" art. BTW does anyone know if we stll call it "camera-ready"?

Thanks for looking in on my efforts.

Al