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Subject:    Re: [users] Screenshots
From:       "DW" <dwalt () suffolk ! lib ! ny ! us>
Date:       2002-12-03 21:06:54
Message-ID: 002601c29b0f$eae9c9c0$0501000a () prettygirl
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Thank you all! I feel very enlightened. Just one more question....

I got the screenshot part down. Now, if I just want to print two pages as
one page, such as to print a two-page web-page on one page of paper (to show
a client what the whole thing would look like), is there indeed a way to do
it? (Without using screenshots.)

-Donna

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Emerson <osnut@pacbell.net>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Screenshots


> On Tuesday 03 December 2002 11:05 am, Caterham Computing wrote:
> > The Print Screen button is on the keyboard, not within the application.
> > (It's usually just to the right of the last function key - F12). Using
> > this, you could capture your web page whether it is displayed in
> > OpenOffice.org or Internet Explorer (assuming Windows) and then paste
into
> > Draw.
>
> In addition to what he siad, "under windows" there are two ways of using
the
> print-screen key.  caveat: I'm not "in windows" right now, so I may have
the
> specifics backwards, but basically, "by itself" the print-screen button
> causes windows to copy your ENTIRE screen to the "windows clipboard" as an
> image; this image can then be PASTED into an application that accepts
> graphics from the clipboard: paint [bitmap editor], OOo's Draw [more of a
> vector-graphic editor, but does bitmaps], or "any word processor" (acts
the
> same as "insert -> graphic")
>
> The second way to use it is to use a "modifier key", and again, I'm not
sure
> of the specific -- it could be control, alt, or even just shift [though
one
> of those "modifiers" should technically get the "system request"
keysequence]
> With the modifier, only the "active" window is copied to the clipboard;
> meaning that the final image won't have your start bar, background,
desktop
> icons, or "any other application" that may be open/displayed at the time.
>
> >From your description, this is the way you want to use it (you get "just"
 your
> browsers' rendition of the page, the whole page [if it fits], and nothing
> else)
>
> Under linux, there are a multitude of "screen capture" programs -- some
can
> even be tied to the "print screen" key.  With my recent upgrade to SuSE
8.1,
> for instance, the "screen capture" utility that is configured by default
is
> called "pixie plus" -- if you don't know it has screen-capture capability,
> you aren't likely to find out about it until you read a message like this
one
> [it is on the main menu - there are no "toolbar icons" for "screen
capture",
> so it isn't obvious until you start "exploring" the menu...]  Starting a
> screen capture with pixie opens a dialog that lets you choose between "the
> whole screen" and "just one window" -- you can also set a "delay" so that
you
> can open a sub-menu or similar.  [also, by default, the "pixie" windows
will
> "hide" before the shot is taken -- sort of like a shy cameraman...]  The
> image thus captured is written straight to a file [not the clipboard] AND
you
> must supply a "proper" three-letter extension [which goes against the
grain
> of unix/linux, but that's the way the developer wrote it...]
>
>
>
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