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Snagit 9 Tutorial:

Capture What You Can Print

Use Printer Capture to capture and manipulate print Output from any application as a digital image.

Use Printer Capture to capture and manipulate the print Output from any application as a digital image. You can create an image file of what the printed material would look like if you had printed it on a printer. Snagit does not need to be running when you select the Snagit Printer from within an application; it starts automatically and begins the capture using the Printer Capture settings.

With Snagit Printer Capture, you can:

• Print anywhere without being connected to a printer. Transfer or e-mail the capture to a system with a printer.
• Convert any file format that can be printed into standard graphic file formats or electronic documents. This eliminates the need to scan paper Output to create electronic documents.
• Add graphic file format export to any application that can print.
• Share documents without special software to view them.
• Annotate Output, add a watermark, or include a border or frame

Print using Snagit Printer Capture

1. From within an application, select File > Print (or the equivalent in that application).
2. From the list of printers, select Snagit 9.
3. Click the Properties button to setup any special print properties such as layout and paper.
4. In the Print dialog box, click OK to complete the capture.

Customize your Printer Capture

You can set up a printer capture to include an Output, Effect, and the destination folder for your captures prior to capturing in an application. 

1. Within Snagit in the Related Tasks pane, click Setup Snagit printer.
   
2. The Snagit Printer Capture Settings dialog box appears. Click the Properties button to setup special print properties such as layout and paper.
3. Click the Output down arrow to select an Output. Use the Output Properties button to customize the Output.
4. Click the Effects down arrow to add a special Effect to the capture. Depending on the Effect, you may see a task pane where you customize the Effect.
5. Click OK. The settings will be used next time you use Printer Capture from within a host application.

Set up a Printer Capture profile to create and save several different Snagit printers.

Capture and View a Multiple Page Document with Printer Capture

Save a Printer Capture as a multipage file to include all of the pages of the capture within one image file. If you do not save the Printer Capture using the multipage file format, each page of the capture is saved as an individual image file.

With the multipage file format, when the capture is complete, it displays in the Editor window where you can use the Multipage viewing tools to page through the capture pages.

Multipage file capability is only available when you set your Printer Capture Output setting to File and specify PDF or TIF format in the Output Properties dialog box. If you have taken a Printer Capture using the configuration for multipage file Output but select to complete your capture in Editor using the Save As option within Editor instead of clicking on the Finish (File) button in the Send tab only the current image will be saved as an image file.

1. In Snagit, select Tools > Snagit Printer Capture Settings > Output > File.
2. Select Output Properties button > Image File tab > File Format > PDF or TIF. Click OK to save changes.
3. Within the Snagit Printer Capture Settings dialog box, click OK.
4. Select Snagit 9 printer as the current printer. Print the desired number of pages within an application.
   The capture displays in Editor.
5. Click Finish Profile to complete the capture.
6. The Save As dialog box displays. Select the location to save this capture to and enter the file a name. Keep the PDF or TIF file format.

To edit the file, use Adobe Acrobat to open the PDF or Snagit Editor to open the TIF file.