On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:45:45PM -0400, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:

Hi there

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 04:39 pm, Carol Spears wrote:

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:45:45PM -0400, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:

Hi there --

I am running GIMP 2.2 and am trying to capture a section of rather than the entire screen. I go to File/Acquire and select Single Window in the Grab utility. A cross hairs appears and I select a portion of the screen.

However, instead of just that area of the screen being captured, the entire screen is captured. What steps or settings do I need to change to correct this?

Single window capture is just that. You will get a single window. In gimp-2.3 there is a select a region of your desktop option. Since gimp has never had this option, i have had a difficult time remembering to try it even (old work habits die hard or something).

carol

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Thanks Carol,
I wasn't sure of the Gimp's screen capture, because I never use it, so I'm glad you answered what it will do. To Andrew though, if you are running KDE on your system, KSnapshot will do exactly what you are looking for. Not sure what system you are running, mine is SuSE and it's part of the kdegraphics files, but if you're running a different Linux, it will be part of something else in KDE.

Of course, if you are running something else, you're on your own! ;o)

Patrick

BandiPat a écrit :

Thanks Carol,
I wasn't sure of the Gimp's screen capture, because I never use it, so I'm glad you answered what it will do. To Andrew though, if you are running KDE on your system, KSnapshot will do exactly what you are looking for. Not sure what system you are running, mine is SuSE and it's part of the kdegraphics files, but if you're running a different Linux, it will be part of something else in KDE.

Of course, if you are running something else, you're on your own! ;o)

Patrick

In Gimp, use selection tool on your screenshot. Edit/Copy then Edit/Past as new. Et voilà.

On 10/26/05, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:

Hi there --

I am running GIMP 2.2 and am trying to capture a section of rather than the entire screen. I go to File/Acquire and select Single Window in the Grab utility. A cross hairs appears and I select a portion of the screen.

However, instead of just that area of the screen being captured, the entire screen is captured. What steps or settings do I need to change to correct this? Thanks.

If you already have the captured picture, and don't want to go about capturing it again,
and if you're willing, you can also crop the captured bit of the screen with the crop tools, which will cut out everything outside the selected area that you crop. [Either make a selection, then find the crop option in the menus, or use the Crop tool.]

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