RE: [LegacyUG] Snagit Software

2016-01-16 Thread Jennifer Crockett
Just a warning to those who may be considering upgrading from version 11 or lower to version 12. In V12 Snagit removed the option of text capture. I use this a lot and was disappointed it was removed. I purchased an upgrade and got caught. (I was offered a refund.) I have to use version 11 for

RE: [LegacyUG] Snagit Software

2016-01-16 Thread Denise Moss-Fritch
Jennifer, Thank you for the clarification. I did a bit of searching online at Techsmith in the v11.4 help file and found the following: Text: Captures text within the selected area as an editable Rich Text Format file (RTF). I suppose it would have its uses. I never had a use for such an OCR

[LegacyUG] Adding images

2016-01-16 Thread Martin Briscoe
The thing that I always wish that I could do with Legacy is to just paste an image into a record (usually source details) and leave Legacy to save it. Martin Briscoe Fort William mar...@mbriscoe.me.uk Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived

Re: [LegacyUG] Date error in search

2016-01-16 Thread BobsTree2-Gmail
Don't understand the search you are doing, but could date format be an issue? European dates frequently use DMY vs. MDY in US. So there is no month for 2-20-1950. That would be a normal reject. Does your search tool allow entering text for the month? just a thought. On Jan 16,

Re: [LegacyUG] Snagit Software

2016-01-16 Thread BobsTree2-Gmail
Checkout the FREE open source utility Greenshot. Does not do videos, but it does do OCR, and can capture full length web pages in MSIE(only) browser that are longer than the visible window. Multiple image formats, image editor, annotations, multiple output destinations, etc. Can capture drop

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding images

2016-01-16 Thread MikeFry
On 16 Jan 2016 9:08 PM, R G Strong-genes wrote: > The underling program is a database that is why the links to the image are > stored and not the image. Your file would start to grow in size if you were > to store the images in the database. I think he wants Legacy to perform OCR on the source

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding images

2016-01-16 Thread R G Strong-genes
The underling program is a database that is why the links to the image are stored and not the image. Your file would start to grow in size if you were to store the images in the database. -Original Message- From: Martin Briscoe Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 7:47 AM To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Snagit Software

2016-01-16 Thread Jennifer Crockett
Denise, Sorry, I should have explained further. You can of course capture text, but not since V 12 can the output be anything other than an image file. You used to be able to have the output to editable text such as a .txt file. You used to be able to choose to capture as Image, Text, Video.