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Subject:Re: Word & Paintbrush From:"W. Michaels" <stinky5 -at- TELEPORT -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 21 May 1995 10:34:32 -0700
I use Paintbrush to prepare all my screen captures for Word. (I use a wonderful
shareware product called SCap to actually capture the images.) I print in B&W
so I replace all the colored areas with black & white in Paintbrush.
Marta wrote about using Word and Paintbrush:
> Save your bitmaps in 16 colors (most VGA cards now default to
> 256 colors, yours may actually be set to 32 million or something.
> This dramatically affects the .BMP file size.
Try saving it in monochrome if you print in B&W. That cuts the .bmp file to
at least a third of its colored size.
Another thing that reduces the size of a Paintbrush bitmap, if your bitmap
is smaller than 8.5 x 11, change the size of the image: from Options/ Image
Attributes... paste your image on the smaller "board."
In Word, Insert the .bmp file. You can scale the .bmp, and crop it further
in Word.
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W. Michaels
stinky5 -at- teleport -dot- com
