Is it possible to capture the data displayed as a scrolling screen that covers more than one's monitor can display?
I use FastStone Capture for screenshots but have not discovered a way to expand the selection tool as the data scrolls down the screen. If FSC cannot do it, is there a screen capture tool that will?
EDITED: I want to be able to paste all the screens into a Word document. Screenpresso allows me to capture them as a video, but Word doesn't handle a video format (or does it?).
TIA
Last edited by BobH on 05 Jun 2014, 16:22, edited 1 time in total.
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Hans (I think) swears by FSC, and I can recall him mentioning this is a scrolling screen option.
I however swear by ScreenPresso and it (I know for a fact) has a very good scrolling screen capture.
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Rudi
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Faststone Capture does a perfectly good job of capturing scrolling windows. I tried to get a screenshot to show the option, but every time I tried to do that it hid itself so that I could capture the window behind it!
StuartR wrote:I tried to get a screenshot to show the option, but every time I tried to do that it hid itself so that I could capture the window behind it!
I have the same issue with ScreenPress... I just could not capture the process of capturing the scrolling sceenshot.
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Rudi
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Someone recently asked me about FastStone Capture and inquired how it is possible to do a scrolling capture of a wide Excel spreadsheet.
I activated a portable version of the app I have on my PC and tried to capture a wide sheet of data. Unlike ScreenPress to which I am familiar, if I click the scrolling button in FastStone, it gives a red border around the Excel sheet, but if I click the mouse button it captures immediately and does not allow me to scroll for the rest. How does one capture a scrolling window with FastStone?
TX
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Rudi
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Not sure. It is probably the freeware version.
I was testing it on ver.5.3.
BTW: The window scroll needed to be horizontal.
After Leif posted the manual I read through it and tried it on a vertical scroll (in Excel) It auto scrolls vertically (the result not being useful as it it "jumpy" and scrambled anyways!). So it seems the scroll feature only works vertically...I assume its optimized for web page usage.
Regards,
Rudi
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I have now checked the paid version of Faststone Capture. It does support horizontal scrolling in Custom Scroll mode, but it works less well than when capturing vertical scrolling. It stopped before the horizontal scroll bar moved all the way to the right.
Earlier versions (among which the last free versions) had issues with vertical scrolling, but that works perfectly in recent versions. As I mentioned, horizontal scrolling is limited, and there is no provision for scrolling both horizontally and vertically.
