more W7 help

PrtSc on its own for the whole screen, Alt + PrtSc for the active window.

Personally I use FastStone for screen capture, crop, print and so much more. Currently using version 9.7 so not sure how much has changed in the latest 10.4 version.

In message snipped-for-privacy@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines snipped-for-privacy@outlook.com writes

Hmm. I thought I'd tried all likely alternatives. It might have been opening in Acrobat and I don't have the paid version. I'll have another go tonight.

Just use Paint. Works well for screen shots and can change encoding, shrink, etc.

Cheers

Dave R

PrintScreen will capture the current (logical) screen to the clipboard.

If you want to actually print that, you will need to past that into something that can handle bitmap images (like Paint etc), and then print from there.

PrtScr+ALT just captures the currently active window, rather than the whole logical[1] screen.

(so for example, if I use PrtSc on my machines, it grabs a 5120x1440 resolution "screen" - which is twice the width of one of my physical screens)

Are the contents of the CD, simple files like JPG ?

Or is it encoded in some fashion, like some sort of medical imaging CD ?

This makes a difference to your ability to get the best possible pictures from this project.

Paul

I use "Lightshot" that allows you to select an area of screen.

winkey+shift+s crops wanted bit on screen and saves to clipbourd

Only if you have the snipping tool enabled - that might not always be the case on Win 7

(snipping tool also has an editor that will let you save the snip to disk without needing to past it into another app first)

Not been keeping up on this. The original issue was to print off a map section, enlarged for clarity. The job was for a neighbour who seems happy with the lower resolution copy. W7 does not have *clipboard* and the keyboard with a PrSc button may not have been supplied with the original PC (re-furb).

Thanks for all the advice but please remember I'm at the agricultural end of computer knowledge:-)

Win 7 had a clipboard. As has been said pressing PrtSc or Alt+PrtSc put the image on the clipboard from where it can be pasted into a program that accepts graphics data.

PrtSc to copy to clipboard is standard (has been there since at least Win 3.1!)

(The "Snipping tool" was a later addition - possibly not in win 7)

Does W7 have a 'screen snip' facility? Oh yes, I see it does

In message snipped-for-privacy@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines snipped-for-privacy@outlook.com writes

Um. Not found on this one. W7 32 bit pro

Hmm. *search programs and files* fails to find anything called

In message snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Chris Hogg snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net writes

Yes! Just found:-)

Despite all the vaccinations and pretty much being a recluse, this morning I tested positive for Covid!

It's easy enough to test. Open Paint then come back to this post, press Alt+PrtsSc, go back to Paint and press Ctrl + v.

Clipboard is not a "program" as such - but the name for the shared "cut'n'paste" buffer that is a part of windows.

Hence you can copy or cut information in a program, and paste it elsewhere. This works within one program - say moving a section of text in a word processor, but also works between unrelated bits of software - say pasting text from your word processor into notepad, or a form on a web page.

It also works with graphic data. So open a program that can handle pictures and create a new empty document if necessary. Press PrtScr. That will capture a snapshot of the screen and hold it in the windows clipboard. Now select "paste" in the program, and you should be rewarded with a picture of your desktop pasted into the doc.

So for example, if I press PrnScr + ALT while this windows is active, and then open Paint, and do paste, I get this :

OK, I see the problem.

I wasn't aware of this, and thought all Clipboard Viewers were third party.

You need a copy of clipbrd.exe from an XP computer. It is located in C:\WINDOWS\system32. Copy it into the same folder in Windows 7 and to run it, click the Windows Orb (Start), type clipbrd and press Enter."

In normal parlance, the clipboard is a software structure, an "intermediary between programs". You don't need to view it to use it. It uses ctrl-C to copy and ctrl-V to paste into the second program.

On Windows, the clipboard can contain multiple instances, and when you paste to the destination program, the destination may only choose to accept one of the types as the chosen type. This occasionally causes problems, if the way a paste is handled is not correct. Sometimes you use three programs in sequence p1 --> p2 --> p3, where the p2 program changes from one representation to the desired representation when you Copy-Pasta.

In this made-up example, I am trying to get across the notion of multiple representations. In the real world, it doesn't do this, but I needed to at least show that ctrl-C can store three representations in one go, if the Program1 chooses to offer such a capability.

__ clipboard / JPG "Paste" Program1 _/ PNG ------------------ Graphics "program2" that "likes" PNG particularly TIF

Clipbrd.exe then, is something to show the contents in the middle column.

There should also be third-party clipboard viewers.

I could try a Google search such as

alternativeto Clipbrd.exe

This is the canonical reference, but other Google entries may be more precise than this scattershot article (too much Mac...) I didn't ask for Windows 10 either.

For example, say I do PrtScn (which I do on occasion). If I open GIMP paint program, I know my screen happens to be

GIMP also happens to have its own Screenshot tool. File : Create : Screenshot. It uses a helper application for the actual screenshot.

If you use the MS Paint and do ctrl-V in there, then the copied image should at least partially appear, if not fully appear. If the window resolution is wrong (like on my example of 1440x900), if you know the resolution of your monitor at the moment, that's likely to be the clipboard image size. The destination tool then, needs a window of that size (1440x900) to fully get the effect of the paste.

This is what I use for simple image work. This older version does not have quite as much confusion over "Export" versus "Save" that the newer versions do. The newest version, the decoration of the screen is "steam punk" and over the top. I don't really want to use a program of this vintage, but I don't have much say in the matter.

gimp-2.6.8-x64-setup.exe 18.8 MiB 2020-Mar-19 13:21 \___ 64-bit OS gimp-2.6.8-x64-setup.exe.md5 59 bytes 2020-Mar-19 13:21 /

I do a File:New, set the image size to 1440x900 (the size of my screen), then when I do a ctrl-V and paste into the blank window, my screenshot from the PrtScn button appears.

Paul