Google map screen grab

[Arch]

Help! I have a google map of all the sites listed in my PhD database:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...6607,-5.185547&spn=11.062687,20.43457&t=k&z=5

and I want just the image (map plus pins) to stick in a powerpoint slide. How do I do it? The keyboard on this computer has a printscreen button, but that doesn't seem to do anything...

 

[Carwash]

The keyboard on this computer has a printscreen button, but that doesn't seem to do anything...

...except copy an image of the current screen contents to the clipboard, so that you can then paste it into, e.g., a paint program or PowerPoint slide.

 

[bonj2]

Alt+Printscreen (copies just active application rather than entire screen)
go to MS paint
Ctrl-V (paste)
save

oh and zoom in first 'cos it looks a bit shoot at that resolution, where you can see half the atlantic aswell

 

[Arch]

oh yeah...

Why doesn't it tell you that then! <mutter mutter>

Ok, so now I have to crop the screen image down, I can do that - cheers. But isn't there a way to just copy the map image without the surrounding guff?

Also, I tried 'print image' while in satellite view, and I get the print screen in the map view. Why is that?

 

[Arch]

Ok, I've got it now, thanks all!

 

[bonj2]

...or get someone with a Mac to look at the site for you and use "Grab" and send you the file. I'm sure there must be Windows equivalents, but it's a lot easier than having to copy the entire screen or window to a clipboard and edit it.

'cos you've have to spend half an hour trying to figure out how to fire up the bloody internet in the first place.

 

[Arch]

Now I'm interested. How do you 'fire up the internet', bonj?

You print it all out, then you use a match....

 

[zimzum42]

If you have a Mac you don't even have to use grab, just press shift-apple-4 and you can trace out an area and it makes it into a picture file and drops it onto your desktop

Macs rule!!!!!

 

[Carwash]

'cos you've have to spend half an hour trying to figure out how to fire up the bloody internet in the first place.

Have you've? Have you've really?

Now I'm interested. How do you 'fire up the internet', bonj?

Silly! He clicks the blue 'e' picture on the screen, which means 'fire up internet!'

 

[Arch]

Have you've? Have you've really?

LOL!

 

[derall]

Try using FSCapture - captures the whole screen, the window in focus, a defined window or a particular area. Go via the link above to get the last freeware version - after v5.3 it became commercial software. The .exe runs an installer, or the .zip version can be unpacked to run off a USB stick.

Once you've captured an area, you can then crop, edit and annotate.

 

[goo_mason]

Alt-F4 will just take a copy of the active window, so you don't get a screenshot of your whole desktop.

 

[Carwash]

Alt-F4 will just take a copy of the active window, so you don't get a screenshot of your whole desktop.

I think we can agree that Alt-F4 is the solution to almost any Windows-related problem.

 

[Arch]

Ha! I was sitting there earlier, and the girl opposite said "Do you know how to get a google map into a powerpoint slide?" So I said "yes!" and told her to Print Screen, and then I couldn't remember where it copied it too, so I had to look at this thread again to remind myself. Still, we got it done, and I'm now officially cleverer than her.