@kenasch wrote:
I paste my screen shots into Paint. A computer running XP should have Paint installed. In Paint it’s easy to just click on Paste and then you can save the file in PNG format.
@wrosie wrote:
The thing they don't clarify in the instructions is they say upload a screenshot of the main page and the service page.
I can scroll down five screens on each of the main and service pages. Do they just want a screenshot of the first screen that shows up or all of the screens you can scroll through.
@Morledzep wrote:
I upload my screen shots to Paint (it's already in Windows, ALL versions) and they save as .jpg.
@BirdyC wrote:
Not sure which shop this is, but I had one recently I think was similar. The MSC wanted screen shots of the entire home page, even if you had to scroll to reach the bottom. So that involved several screen shots in some cases. In that case, I asked if it was OK to convert my Word file into a PDF, and they said yes. But I don't think it was the same MSC. You can still do it in Paint or another program, but you have to keep pasting under your first capture.
@Lady Marius wrote:
I am not on my laptop at the moment, I will update with the name of the program when I am. But I downloaded a program from the windows store that allows one to screenshoot on a windows machine and save directly as a png or jpg file (or pdf...etc).
Edited to say you don't have to past together multiple screens with this program either...it allows multiple page screenshoots to be taken.
@wrosie wrote:
I really think the editor doesn't understand that I can't give them a .png from a laptop or desktop. I'm going to ask the scheduler.
@wrosie wrote:
Well I asked the scheduler and she passed along to the editor that .pdf files were acceptable for this client. They accepted my shops without me having to do anything more.
@BirdyC wrote:
That's good news! What a PITA it would have been to have to recapture your shots as image files. I have to wonder sometimes (often, actually) if the MSC right hand knows what the MSC left hand is doing! LOL.
@KateH wrote:
When you transfer it to a pdf you can manipulate the screenshot.
@BirdyC wrote:
True, but somebody would have to be a pretty good file editor to change, for example, the date and time at the bottom of a screen shot, if that's one of the concerns, or change the text within a shot
And maybe some MSCs just don't think of allowing PDFs of screen shots. I did a shop several months ago and asked to submit the multiple screen shots it required as a PDF, and the project manager loved the idea--the MSC had simply not thought to make this an option instead of individual screen shots.