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From: fargo@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Paintbrush
Keywords: Paintbrush, GIF, PCX, screen capture
Message-ID: <JAW%8}_@rpi.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 06:58:43 GMT
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In article <8980@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill) writes:
>In article <3450@gmdzi.gmd.de> strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
>>You can paste clipboard contents larger than the screen by first
>>zooming out in Paintbrush (so you see you full page), then pasting
>>(you will see a hatched rectangle only, which you can move until
>>it fits), then clicking outside the rectangle (now you see the
>>real picture) and then zoomin back in.
>
>However, you STILL can't get full-screen pics this way.  Try pressing PrtSc
>sometime, then going into Paintbrush, zooming out, selecting Paste, looking
>at the hashed picture, clicking outside the rectangle, looking at the
>picture, then pressing ^C to see the whole picture; it's not all there.  I'm
>missing a centimeter or two on top and bottom.
>

You can paste full-screen (and larger) pictures into Paintbrush.

If you go to the Image Attributes selection in the Options menu, the dialog
box lets you resize the image in either centimeters, inches, or pels (pixels)
After you change the image size, though, you must open a new file for the
changes to take effect (rather annoying).

So, to paste an 800x600x256 bitmap (contents of the screen, for example):
	Get the bitmap into the Clipboard (PrtSc for the screen contents)
	Open up Paintbrush
	Change the Image Attributes size to 800 pels by 600 pels and make
		sure the colors radio button is selected
	Open a new file
	Select zoom out from the View menu (Ctrl-O)
	Select paste from the Edit menu (Shift-Ins)
	(A cross-hatched box should appear and fill the entire viewing area)
	Click anywhere outside the cross-hatched box (inside the canvas box)
	Voila!  You can check the image by selecting view picture from
		the View menu
	Make sure to specify the right image type when you save it.  Don't
		want our 256 color images coming out in 16 colors.

If you're reading in an image from somewhere else (GIF file, a PCX file, etc)
you may have to diddle with the palette to get the colors right.

Hope you enjoyed my babbling.

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