Assembling Large Diagrams

In most cases, I can capture image information easily using SnagIt. However there are some cases where I am not able to do this. Even when using SnagIt’s window scrolling and extended window advanced features. When this occurs, I do the following:

1. Launch the application to the specific window that you want to take a screen shot of.
2. Take a screen shot using SnagIt and save the image to file. Example: one.jpg.
3. Scroll the window of your application vertically or horizontally (depending on size) and take another screen shot with SnagIt. Make sure the second screen shot overlaps the same image information of the first screen shot slightly. Save the screenshot to file. Example: two.jpg.
4. Repeat steps #2 and #3 until you have captured all image information.
5. Launch Adobe Elements and use the photo merge feature (normally used for panoramic pictures) to merge all images into a complete image.

That’s it. Here is an example of the end result (warning, it is big):

The diagram above was composed of five separate images using SnagIt and Adobe Photoshop from an original ANT Explorer diagram.

For those savvy folk, yes, the nodes in the diagram have been masked to hide…secret information.

3 Comments to Assembling Large Diagrams

1. 

   Greetings. My name is Tony Dunckel, product manager for SnagIt @ TechSmith Corporation. If you’re willing to provide details, I’d really like to explore what problems you encountered trying to perform this large scrolling capture with SnagIt. Looking at the size of this capture, SnagIt should have no problem auto-scrolling both vertically and horizontally.

   If you would be so kind, please send me a quick message at t[dot]dunckel[at]tecshmith[dot]com and I’ll see what we can figure out.

   Thanks,
   Tony
Tony Dunckel on November 22nd, 2006
2. 

   Tony, as promised, here is a video demonstration using Eclipse with the ANT Explorer plugin enabled. To watch the video just download, unzip, and launch the AVI file. The zip file is roughly 8.8 MB in size and is 2 minutes and 46 seconds in length.

   Thanks for taking the time to investigate this issue.
Brooke Kuhlmann on November 22nd, 2006
3. 

   when I first saw the post, I do think to use photoshop to merge the image is very cool. but now, with Mouseman’s response, I’m looking forward to what SnagIt can do.. hey hey… I’m SnagIt lover too… :p
Cecelia Yu on November 25th, 2006

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