Capturing All Or Part Of A Screen; Importing Graphic Files - Smart Technologies SMART BOARD User Manual

Capturing All or Part of a Screen

The Screen Capture feature of SMART Board tools allows you to capture external Pen Tray
annotations and the application background into a Notebook page.
By default, the captured image will appear on a new page in the current Notebook file. You
can change this by de-selecting Snapshot to New Page in the Tools menu. The newly
captured image will then appear at the top of the current Notebook page.
Screen Capture also lets you to capture an entire screen or a selected area of a screen into
Notebook. If SMART Notebook isn't open when you select Capture Screen or Capture
Selection from the SMART Board tools drop-down menu, it will automatically launch to receive
the captured annotation.
To capture a selected area or the entire screen:
1 Press on the SMART Board icon in the menu bar.
2 To capture a region, select Capture Selection, and press and drag to outline the
exact screen area you want to capture into Notebook.
To capture the entire screen, select Capture Screen.
NOTE: By default, the captured image will appear on a new page in the current Notebook
file. You can change this by de-selecting the Snapshot to New Page command in the
Tools menu. The newly captured image will then appear at the top of the current Notebook
page.
3 Open SMART Notebook to view your captured annotations.

Importing Graphic Files

Graphic files can be inserted directly into the current Notebook page via the Picture from File
command in the Insert menu. The imported picture will appear in the top-left corner of the
current Notebook page.
Notebook supports .bmp, .pict, .tga and SimpleText image formats.
To import graphic files:
1 Select Picture from File from the Insert menu.
2 Select the directory in which the image file you want to import is stored.
3 Select the file name of the image file you want to import to the current Notebook file.
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