Take pictures of online contracts!

Dagobert

I would strongly recommend anyone placing contracts or orders online to get a screen shooter!

I always take screenshots of anything important such as confirmation screens, special offers, anything that might be needed as evidence should anything go wrong.

For Windows users I can recommend an excellent piece of free software, which is probably the single-most useful program I ever downloaded: MWSnap.

You can either take a picture of a window, a selected area, or the whole desktop. The latter is useful because this way you can include date and time in the picture if hovering over the date with the mouse when shooting.

RoCas

... or if you have an Apple Mac, press:

Options+Shift+4 for selected area
Options+Shift+3 for whole desktop

No need for additional software with Macs

RoCas

albertross_2

Printscrn/ALT printscrn

-=Mr-J=-

... or if you have an Windows PC, press:

Print Screen for whole desktop
Alt + Print Screen for current window

No need for additional software with Windows

-=Mr-J=-

Ah, beaten to it ... well done albertross.

Personally, I use a PDF Writer for this type of thing - then it can be made searchable.

matty_c608

How do you search a screenshot?!

intel

matty_c608 wrote:

How do you search a screenshot?!

Just hit the Print/Screen/SysRq key on your keyboard
and paste into Paint or whatever and also..

Hold down Alt then Print/Screen/SysRq key on your keyboard for just that active window.

matty_c608

Hmm, i know that!!

But they way Mr-J put it, it makes it sound like he can search text in a screenshot :S

Thanks anyway..

Dagobert

matty_c608 wrote:

But they way Mr-J put it, it makes it sound like he can search text in a screenshot

He uses a PDF creator to print, for instance, a web page. The text content will then be searcheable. (This is done via the print dialog.)

However, not every web page is printable.

matty_c608

Oh.

Thanks.

-=Mr-J=-

matty_c608 wrote:

How do you search a screenshot?!

As Dagobert says for me, I was referring to using a PDF Writer to produce a searchable PDF.

I have a receipts and invoices folder in which I place the PDFs and can search the entire content of the folder via the PDF Reader.

Whilst some webpages are not printable, stuff such as receipts, invoices and T&Cs normally are, so no problems there.