Questions?

How do I print the screen?

Windows

• Start up an application that can import (via Edit/Paste) and then print an image (for example: Word or PaintShop or even Netscape's Composer)
• Raise the browser window to the foreground (usually by clicking on the title bar)
• Simultaneously press the Alt and the Print Screen buttons; this copies a picture of the selected window to the desktop's clipboard (cut/paste buffer).
• Raise the window of the application you started, and (usually) click on Edit/Paste to copy the screen snapshot into that application.
• Print/save the picture. When printing, you may want to select "landscape" orientation and scale the image to fit the page.

Macintosh

• Hit Caps Lock and then simultaneously press Apple+Shift+4 to do a window grab
• The click on the Netscape browser window
• That creates a file named Picture n (where 'n' is an integer from 0 to ?) that contains an image of the browser window
• You can then select this file, and drop it onto your printer icon.

Unix

• Use the xv utility
• Select the Grab function and follow the instructions in the pop-up window to either grab a window or a section of a window.
• Save the file in a convenient format for printing.

Under Windows NT, Netscape says "Low Virtual Memory" when I try to load an image...what can I do?

You will need to change the virtual memory settings for Windows NT.

1. Login with administrator privilege
2. Click Start | Settings | Control Panel
3. Double click on the System icon
4. Click on the Performance tab, and click on Virtual Memory

Credits & Send in your comments

This Java(tm) applet was created at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center by the Interactive Systems Development group.

Tom Whittaker was responsible for the coding, and Liam Gumley at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies was the lead investigator for this project.

The first operational use of this was during the CAMEX experiment in the late Summer of 1998.

Please send your questions and comments to Tom Whittaker