Need a screen capture pkg which can print a selected area of window.

u have to use Camtasia

Aldo, camtasia is a windows application and is therefore not appropriate to an Ubuntu workstation installation.

You have a few options.

* ALT+Printscreen will grab exactly one window.
* Open gimp and choose File --> Acquire --> Screenshot
* Applications --> Accessories --> Take screenshot (which you could right click and add to the panel so you can easily click it to take a picture).

You can then open any of the above images in GIMP, draw a rectangle around the area you want, choose copy and then paste it into your document.

There are numerous other ways to take screen grabs on linux, a few are listed here:-

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/screen-capture.html

Here is a comprehensive one:-

http://linuxbrit.co.uk/screenshooter/

Alan, Please accept my apologies for being so late with my reply. Your
advise has lead me : Gnome/Applications/Accessories/take a screen shot/
whole page/Save file to desktop. Then: Applications/graphics/Gimp/ open
file/ crop/Print. In all a lengthy process compared to the other procedure.

I reply rather than feedback because I Have another question.: Gimp/help
responds with "The Gimp files were not installed.Make sure Gimp-help-en is
installed." I cannot find a source for this package either on the Ubuntu 7.?
CD, from the package list, or on the Gimp website.
Your advise is welcome. Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Pope" <email address hidden>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Question #7355]: Need a screen capture pkg which can print
aselected area of window.

> Your question #7355 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/7355
>
> Alan Pope proposed the following answer:
> Aldo, camtasia is a windows application and is therefore not appropriate
> to an Ubuntu workstation installation.
>
> You have a few options.
>
> * ALT+Printscreen will grab exactly one window.
> * Open gimp and choose File --> Acquire --> Screenshot
> * Applications --> Accessories --> Take screenshot (which you could right
> click and add to the panel so you can easily click it to take a picture).
>
> You can then open any of the above images in GIMP, draw a rectangle
> around the area you want, choose copy and then paste it into your
> document.
>
> There are numerous other ways to take screen grabs on linux, a few are
> listed here:-
>
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/screen-capture.html
>
> Here is a comprehensive one:-
>
> http://linuxbrit.co.uk/screenshooter/
>
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Thank you. To implement Knapshot I have installed Kubuntu.

ksnapshot is a great utility. For future searchers, the following command will install ksnapshot and handle the desktop environment requirements without explicitly installing kubuntu first:

   sudo apt-get install ksnapshot

After a lot of looking around, I think I have found the only free screenshot utiliy that allows you to draw a selection rectangle on the screen and capture only what you want and save it as a jpg. The link leading up to it only mentions the Mac, but when you go to the download page, there is an English and a Spanish version for Linux. I got it working by expanding the file right on the desktop, which gives you an icon named Captura. Double click the icon, select a rectangle on the screen, and press Save. It saves the screenshot to your home folder. For several screenshots, rename the file (capture 1, 2 etc) on the bottom before pressing Save. Works well.

Get here:

http://www.hernansoft.com/downloads_en.html#Captura

Ksnapshot used to have an Icon for direct PRINT. Why has it gone missing?