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- From: pebo@sunatb.UUCP (Peter Bodifee)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
- Subject: Re: How to print bitmaps from clipboard?
- Keywords: print bitmaps
- Message-ID: <1457@sunatb.UUCP>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 09:12:58 GMT
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- Reply-To: pebo@sunatb.atb.bso.nl
- Organization: BSO/Automation Technology Breda B.V., The Netherlands
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- SUMMARY
-
- Below are the reactions on my request how to print screen dumps on a postscript
- printer. Thank you for your help. Somebody here gave me a pointer to a
- shareware program "WinGIF" (from SuperSet Software Corp.) which can apart
- from a lot more also paste the clipboard and print it.
- The time consuming part with printing on a postscript printer can not be
- avoided (I think ...)
- -----
- From: dbstrutt@acs.ucalgary.ca (David Strutt)
-
- Regarding your request for help in printing a screen dumped to
- the clipboard, try going into paintbrush and pasting the contents
- of the clipboard into there. Paintbrush will allow you to print
- out whatever you pasted, using whatever printer you have set up
- under Print Manager.
- -----
- From: gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler)
-
- You can also paste it into Paintbrush and print it from there, but I don't
- think it would be much quicker. It may be worth a try though.
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- From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)
-
- The simplest way is to paste the clipboard image into PaintBrush, and
- print from there. In order to get the whole image into PaintBrush,
- do the following:
-
- 1. Select "Zoom Out" from PaintBrush.
- 2. Select Edit/Paste - a cross-hatch grid will appear.
- 3. Select Edit/Paste *again* - the picture will appear.
- 4. Select "Zoom In".
- 5. Print
-
- Note that you have to Paste *twice*!
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- From: charvel@salzo.Cary.NC.US (Jeff Cogswell)
-
- I use a postscript printer at work, and have found that it's
- a ROYAL PAIN to print bitmapped images. The problem is that
- Postscript is vector-based, much like CorelDRAW, so apparantly
- the individual pixels have to be converted to individual
- Postscript commands. I know nothing about your printer, but
- my HP Laserjet can be switched out of laserjet, and then I
- can just dump a straight bitmap, greatly speeding up the
- process. Of course, I have to switch printers from inside
- Windows, too.
-
- If I *do* print a bitmap in Postscript, though, it takes
- about as long as you described, and I do it the same way,
- by sucking the clipboard into another graphics program.
- (I use either CorelDRAW or the shareware program
- PaintShop Pro.)
- ------
- From: wkay@vlsi21.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kevin Kay)
-
- Just curious, but have you tried a screen grabbing utility called
- "Grabit." It's available on ftp.cica.indiana.edu and does a pretty
- good job. Anything you can get on the screen, you can print...
- The printing performance (speedwise) is not spectacular, but the
- author claims that the speed hit is by design. He claims to give
- you extensive algorithms for handling various colors/grays
- etc...
-
- Just a thought, maybe it could save you a few headaches.....
-
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