On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > William Truitt wrote: > >> And perhaps Ron Nossaman could share how he sent the graph for same in his >> e-mail. I was able to open the attachment and look at it fullscreen in >> Picassa 3 (freeware), which was nice. >> > > This is one of those many things that ought to be mindlessly simple, that > after all these years is still a hassle, if possible at all. Copying and > pasting into Word works on little charts, as does Excel's built in save as > gif routine (need a VB macro for that). This chart is apparently too big, > and I only get half of it. I finally found that I could paste it into Corel > Draw as an enhanced metafile and get the whole thing (MS Word still got half > the chart), and export it as a jpeg. This, naturally, screwed up the colors. > No real answers, and certainly not a reasonable method, but it sort of got > there in the end. > Ahem. With a Mac, it's pretty "mindlessly simple." There's a small app named "Grab." All one must do is click and drag over any selected area. It then gets saved as a jpeg (you name the file). One can also do other things with Grab, like capturing a window or the entire screen. Or, as Jon mentioned, Macs make pdf files as easy as clicking 'Print.' -- JF "I'm a Mac" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090529/e1ce7b84/attachment.htm>
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