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From: akm@obelix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: PrintScreen from Windows
Summary: dither color bitmaps using paintshop/wingif
Keywords: bitmaps color W4W Write
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Date: 15 May 91 20:41:41 GMT
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In article <32878@usc> burhans@mizar.usc.edu (Mustang Sally) writes:
>I don't know about WFW but the April issue of Inside Msoft Windows sez
>that Write was just NOT designed to display or print color pictures.
>Therefore when you paste a color picture into a Write document, Write
>will change to black ANY color other than white. This makes some
>pictures look yuck fooey. The newsletter recommends using Paintbrush
>to Save As... a Monochrome bitmap. Paintbrush will change ANY DARK COLORS
>to black and any light colors to white. 

A better way of doing this (IMHO), is to take said bitmap, read it
into Paintshop or WinGif, and then dither it to two colors, and then
read the resulting image back into Write/W 4 W. I've used this to
capture screen images (of w4w actually...), and it works reasonably
well. Of course, the dithering is at screen resolution, not printer
resolution, which is a little frustrating.

kartik


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