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How do I get printouts of RDSS data screens, or make screen captures like I see throughout Paceandcap?
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RDSS does not yet have a built in
Print button which prints a single screen or a pre-defined collection of screens. Part of the problem is that there is an endless combination of possible screens and orderings - one size would not fit all: some would get too many printouts, some too few or not in the preferred order, etc.
Instead, you can easily create your own
customized printout using the following steps:
1. On the RDSS2 Desktop, click the
Screen Capture button. This loads a Windows utility named '
SnippingTool.exe' which looks like this:
2. Minimize this utility then go to the RDSS screen or screens you wish to print. Click on the SnippingTool again in your Taskbar, choose New then create a rectangle on your screen using your mouse. The rectangle is outlined in red. When you release your mouse button, tht area of the screen is copied to the Windows Clipboard and subsequently displayed in a little window for your review.
3. For each race (or for groups of races) create a blank
Rich Text Format (RTF) file using Wordpad or Word, or a
Word format file (DOC or DOCX) if you have Word. Open the file then Paste the screen you just captured from the Windows Clipboard to your file (right-click then choose Paste, or just use the keyboard shortcut keys: Ctrl+V).
Download and use
this blank RTF template file if you like, or create your own using Word or WordPad (or other RTF or DOC format editor).
4. Repeat for as many different screen captures, in whatever order you need, add notes if you like, then Print the document. Switch to Landscape page orientation if Portrait mode squashes the screens. You can also Save it to a PDF format for sharing if you are using Word, or print it to a PDF document using
Bullzip or other PDF printer driver. You could have 1 such document for all races on a card, or 1 document for each race.
5. If the RDSS Desktop
Screen Capture button does not properly find and load the Windows 'SnippingTool', run it manually from the Windows
Start menu by typing
SnippingTool.
6. You can also use other screen capture utilities like
Snagit or
ScreenHunterFree.
Happy Printing!
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