Screenshot / Screen Capture and Editing with Abracadabra Instant Manual

The ability to capture screenshots in a document is a core feature of Abracadabra Instant Manual. This document explains the features and benefits of the screenshot editor.

3 ways to capture

With Instant Manual, you can capture a screen in 3 useful ways, each with the press of a single key.

• Capture the entire screen – press Print Screen
• Capture the active window – press Scroll Lock
• Capture the window beneath the mouse pointer – press Pause / Break

 

Tip: The online help comes with a handy label like the one below that you can print for your keyboard.

 

 

Read more about the screen capture keys in the online help...

Edit the image immediately

Once you have captured a screen shot, you are immediately presented with an editor.

• Resize the image, by dragging a slider
• Crop the image by clicking and dragging
• Change the color depth and image format

 

The image size is displayed so you can optimise the image quality settings for web-published documents. Instant Manual remembers the quality settings for subsequent screenshots. This means you can spend time tweaking the image until you get an acceptable trade-off between image size and quality, then forget about it.

 

Read more about the screenshot image settings in the online help...

Tip: Click the resize button to set dimensions precisely

Add a caption immediately

You can add a caption and title for the image directly in the screenshot editor, which means:

• You don’t waste time switching between an image editor and a word processor
• Less errors, because you immediately record your thoughts

 

With Instant Manual’s full-featured HTML editor, you can restructure and format any text you enter with your screenshot, once you have snapped all the images you want.

Capture some more...

While you’re editing the HTML document, you can easily snap some more images. So if you’ve missed a step, or can think of a better way to explain an idea, there’s no problem. Just click the record button again, and capture more images.

It’s HTML!

Which means that you are not locked into a proprietary file format. You can open the resulting document with any HTML aware editor, which includes Microsoft Word, among many others.

 

You can immediately publish the document on the Internet or an intranet, and view it with any web browser.

But don’t take our word for it

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