Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Paintbrush Keywords: Paintbrush, GIF, PCX, screen capture Message-ID: <3454@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 11 Oct 90 08:11:47 GMT References: <2162@tnoibbc.UUCP> <3450@gmdzi.gmd.de> <8980@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 23 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. Sure I can. I just tried it. I.e. I pressed PrtScr, launched a Paintbrush, set the picture attributes to colored & default size (perhaps you forgot that?), zoomed out, pasted (whole picture area filled with hatching), clicke outside, and switched to full scree view. Result: all the 800x600 pixels (I'm using the generic SVGA driver) where there. Wolfgang Strobl #include