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Started by Peter Bodifee
Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:33
How to print bitmaps from clipboard?
Author: Peter Bodifee
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:33
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:33
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I would like to print a window or the whole screen on
a postscript printer. From the MS-Windows reference manual
I read that this can be achived by PrintScreen or Alt-PrintScreen.
This will put a bitmap on the clipboard. But there is no "print"
on the clipboard menus. I have pasted the contents of the clipboard
in Arts & Letters (3.11), but this takes ages to print bitmaps from
Arts & letters! A&L takes 5 minutes to print the bitmap of a full screen
dump (on a Dell 486D/33) and the printer takes apprx. 20 minutes
(is a Dataproducts LZR1260).
Is there an alternative? Any tools to print clipboard files?
Or am I on the wrong track? Any help appreciated!
Please e-mail to me, I will post a summary.
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Re: How to print bitmaps from clipboard?
Author: Peter Bodifee
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 09:12
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 09:12
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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 ...)
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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.
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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.)
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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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