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Subject:Re: Windows Screen Captures From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Sat, 3 Dec 1994 11:57:25 -0700
This comes under the heading of slap myself on the forehead and say "Why
didn't I think of this myself?" In all honesty, I did try to do this in
one of my paint programs with no success. For some reasons the clipboard
image would not import (I believe I was trying to work in an older version
of Picture Publisher.) However, I almost never work in Paintbrush and
didn't even think about trying this there. Now I really must give this a
try.
On Fri, 2 Dec 1994, Susan W. Gallagher wrote:
> But really, none of this extra sofware is necessary. I capture screens to
> the windows clipboard using alt+prnscrn for the active window or just
> prnscrn if I need the menu too. Paste the clipboard contents into paintbrush
> to clean it up, then do a copy to of just the region of the paintbrush
> workplace I want to get the right file size. This gives me the ability to
> do everything from full-size screens to individual toolbar graphics without
> spending an extra penny on software or consuming any disk space.
> piece 'o cake, as they say.
> Sue Gallagher
> Technical Writer
> StarBase Corp, Irvine CA
> sgallagher -at- starbasecorp -dot- com