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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 15 Jun 2001.
Re: how to make a Gif

Re: how to make a Gif

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 16:19:15 +0200, "lastfuture (Peter Marquardt)"
<las...@lastfuture.de> enlightened us with:

> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:36:49 +0100, sara wallen <sar...@deadspam.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >,--- Bamboo <Bam...@chello.com> wrote ---
> >| 
> >| Var...@bbs.iyard.org wrote:
> >| > ==> Bamboo wrote
> >| > : Var...@bbs.iyard.org (�O����e) wrote:
> >| > : >
> >| > : > May I ask how to make a Gif picture?
> >| > : > 
> >| > : > or how to transfer the ascii to Gif?
> >| > : > 
> >| 
> >| > : Hmmm, Screenshot ?
> >| > 
> >| >   What's this?
> >| > 
> >| >   Could you please say this more?
> >| > 
> >| It's possible to save an image of what's on your screen. On a Mac it's 
> >| CMD-SHIFT-3.  I don't know how it's done on a wintel computer, but it's 
> >| possible.
> >| Just open your ascii image in some texteditor and make a screenshot. In 
> >| a graphic editing program open the screenshot, cut all the parts you 
> >| don't need and convert the image to GIF. That's all.
> >| Greetz,
> >| 
> >| Bamboo
> >'---
> >
> >On a PCthere's a lovely little button called "print screen" which does
> >the same :) Usually it's above you insert key, which is above delete,
> >which is above your arrow keys...
> >
> >You can also press alt + printscreen to isolate just the one window
> 
> but mind that both the key combinations only work in windows 95 and
> higher.. in pure dos they usually output the screen directly to your
> printer (on LPT1)
> 

Hence "Printscreen".

Paint Shop Pro comes with a very good screen shot grabber, including one where
you select the exact area you want to grab. it's also able to save direct into
gif, and is generally the best graphics package I've come across.


-- 
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 L_ ===    Stuart Moore
 []\, stm

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