I would recommend a better screen shot tool myself. Paint is the program
that's messing you up.
I'd recommend spending a little money on something like HyperSnap-DX that
will give you fantastic screen grabbing capabilities. You can find it at:
http://www.hypersnap-dx.com/hsdx/
I just yesterday wrote an image browser in REBOL/View that takes advantage
of the auto save features in Hypersnap using one of many different output
formats, bmp in this case. This permits me to browse through a series of
images I snapped and write descriptive text for every snap.
Just stay away from the lame Microsoft software and everything is good.
Later,
<SS>
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Galt,
>
> there is a patent (owned by unisys). My understanding is that unisys does
> not charge any royalty fees if the software is free, however.
>
> At 07:42 PM 8/4/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi, I just did a screen snapshot in windows,
> >then pasted it into paint and the saved
> >and you get an enormous uncompressed windows
> >bmp. Could I use some trick in Rebol/View
> >to turn it into a gif file or other nice format?
> >I know View must be able to read gif jpg and
> >maybe some others in order to render them
> >on faces. Can it write them, too?
> >Is there some lousy gif patent that lets
> >you provide gif readers but not gif writers?
> >
> >-Galt
> >
> >
> >
>
> ;- Elan [ : - ) ]
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