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- From: John_Miller@mindlink.bc.ca (John Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: *RE-POST* - How do you Print Quicktime Movies
- Message-ID: <14343@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 20:01:03 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- In message <16h4bpINNh6q@agate.berkeley.edu>,
- jstern@garnet.berkeley.edu (Judy Stern) writes
- >>Anyone any idea how to print Quicktime movies (to a laserwriter).
- >>
- >>I have a Hypercard stack running some movies that have come from
- >>the Quicktime Beta CD. I want to allow the user to stop a movie
- >>at a point of their choosing and then choose Print Card and
- >>the card will be printed, with the movie still on it.
- >
- >This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but you could use
- >the CopyFrame command that comes with the Claris QT xcmd to
- >copy the current frame into the clipboard. Then you could
- >paste it onto the card. Of course, since it's HyperCard all you
- >get is a black and white copy, which may or may not be good enough.
-
- Well, if the QuickTime XCMDs have a way to get the current
- frame onto the clipboard, the latest version of HyperTint,
- currently being tested, can read a picture from the clipboard
- and includes a new XCMD to print the colorized picture.
-
- There are some drawbacks:
-
- 1) A goodly amount of extra memory is used for image buffers
- to colorize the stack.
- 2) Sending colour bitmapped images to a LaserWriter over
- LocalTalk is painfully slow. Try this with a colour
- screen dump in a program like MacWrite II to get an
- idea of the time: we're talking in the 10-15 minute
- range.
- 3) The elements in the HyperCard image (fields and buttons)
- get printed at screen resolution (72 dpi), although there
- is an option to display header text at the printer's
- resolution.
- 4) HyperTint is not free.
-
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