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From: alansari@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari)
Subject: Re: PrintScreen from Windows
Message-ID: <1991May16.030912.17069@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
References: <1991May14.164956.19963@cpqhou.uucp> <1991May15.081353.28646@agate.berkeley.edu> <32878@usc>
Date: Thu, 16 May 91 03:09:12 GMT
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In article <32878@usc> burhans@mizar.usc.edu (Mustang Sally) writes:
>>In article <1991May14.164956.19963@cpqhou.uucp> gregj@cpqhou.uucp (Greg Judkins) writes:
>>>
>>>Actually the image is in full color in the clipboard.  If you import it into
>>>a document (W4W, Write,...) it is converted to monochrome.  I am not sure if
>>>it is the application doing the conversion but I suspect it is.
>>>
>
>I don't know about WFW but the April issue of Inside Msoft Windows sez
>that Write was just NOT designed to display or print color pictures.
>Therefore when you paste a color picture into a Write document, Write
>will change to black ANY color other than white. This makes some
>pictures look yuck fooey. The newsletter recommends using Paintbrush
>to Save As... a Monochrome bitmap. Paintbrush will change ANY DARK COLORS
>to black and any light colors to white. This CAN result in a more
>pleasant looking picture. Then they recommend calling it back up in
>Paintbrush copying and pasting to Write. They also go on to talk about
>Write's resizing of pasted pictures...but that's another story.
>-- 
>Jackie Burhans (burhans@usc.edu)          
>Data Stylist, USC Student Affairs

I have W4W 1.1a and I can past color images in it with no problems. I
think that one of the things that V1.1a fixed was color image pasting
and printing, though I haven't tried printing yet.

--
Mohammad Al-Ansari
Computer Science Department
Indiana University
