nate wrote:
Kirk Strauser said:At 2002-10-10T17:58:56Z, "nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org> writes:ACK. I *HATED* when people did this. Taking a screenshot, a perfectly normal graphics file and shoving it into a word document!What if the purpose of the screenshot was to illustrate a piece of text that you're concurrently working on? That seems like a reasonable thing to do. --
<RANT>I've only done it to stick in user manuals etc, but on my current (work) machine I have to stick it in paint first anyway, because if I stick it straight in word, it takes the last 5 or so RHS pixels and sticks them on the LHS of the picture. Why? @#$% knows but I know if it was a linux box I could work it out - in windows I just shrug and say "at least there's a work around" :p My new work around is to install the Gimp and use it to capture, at least then I can save it to a small format like jpeg if I don't need too much detail.
BarneyPS. God I wish I could use linux on my workstation here, if not for cygwin/vim/gimp I'd go (completely) mad.
PPS. I just tried it and it doesn't have the problem any more... maybe it was a different machine? bah! who cares.
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