
Irfanview (freeware is easy to use, and can automatically save screenshots in various formats.

But this little procedure is easy as can be, and only needs a few mouse-clicks to accomplish.Ī graphics editor to tweak and crop your source image. Tutorials about creating Scalable Vector Graphics (in a text editor!) can seem very complex, and Inkscape is mystifying for a new user like me. It can be used for images other than text. For example, a screenshot, or a page from a pdf document, or a logo created in a graphics editor. This process is very useful if the only thing available is a graphic in raster format (bitmap, png, etc). If you have a foreign-language text fragment but can't use an embedded font, or a beautiful fleuron you want to use as a section divider, or even a page of simple text that you want to keep on a single page, such as a title-page, bitmap-tracing might be the answer. Edited / updated 16 April 2014 to add information in steps 8, 9, 10, and a link in the P.S.
