Neptune@cup.portal.com (Dwayne R Farley) (05/19/91)
I am trying to figure out how to export images in a format that I will eventually be able to convert to GIF format. These must be at least 16 color images. I've tried exporting in PCX but CorelDraw converts it to B&W dithers. The manual hasn't been much help either. Can someone help? Dwayne Farley neptune@cup.portal.com dfarley@caticsuf.csufresno.edu
cms2839@isc.rit.edu (a.stranger) (05/20/91)
why not just hit full - screen preview
( F9 ) , and then capture the screen to the clipboard ( PrintScreen ) ?
you will then have a colour bitmap image of the entire screen .
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@ a.stranger - CMS2839@ritvax.isc.rit.edu @baldy@micor.ocunix.on.ca (The Bald Eagle) (05/20/91)
In article <42475@cup.portal.com> Neptune@cup.portal.com (Dwayne R Farley) writes: > >I am trying to figure out how to export images in a format that >I will eventually be able to convert to GIF format. These must >be at least 16 color images. I've tried exporting in PCX but >CorelDraw converts it to B&W dithers. The manual hasn't been >much help either. > >Can someone help? > CorelDraw cannot export bitmaps in colour. But, there is an easy workaround for this. What you do is go to full screen preview (I'm assuming you have version 2.0 of CorelDraw) and then press your Print Screen key. This pastes the image to the windows' clipboard. Then go into windows paintbrush and click on edit and then paste. (Make sure before you do this that you have maximized the screen and have removed the toolbox on the side). Then you can save the file in whatever format that paintbrush offers. I believe it has a 16 colour option. Donna (on Andre's account) -- uucp: micor!baldy internet: baldy@micor.ocunix.on.ca The Bald Eagle strikes again! God created only so many perfect heads, the rest He covered with hair.
jfadams@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Adams) (05/21/91)
In article <42475@cup.portal.com> Neptune@cup.portal.com (Dwayne R Farley) writes: > >I am trying to figure out how to export images in a format that >I will eventually be able to convert to GIF format. These must >be at least 16 color images. I've tried exporting in PCX but >CorelDraw converts it to B&W dithers. The manual hasn't been >much help either. > >Can someone help? > >Dwayne Farley >neptune@cup.portal.com >dfarley@caticsuf.csufresno.edu Here is one way (which may not be the only or preferred way): Draw your graphic, using the appropriate fill colors, etc. and group the items you want to export together. Select the group, then use the COPY command or control-INSERT to place your selection to the clipboard. Switch to an application such as WINGIF that supports the GIF file format as well as the clipboard. PASTE into WINGIF, then save your graphic as a GIF. Use of the clipboard is also a fast way to export graphics from CorelDraw to other applications such as Powerpoint or Excel. -- James F. Adams John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. Everett, Washington USA WORLD:jfadams@tc.fluke.COM UUCP:{ihnp4!uw-beaver,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,decvax!microsoft}!fluke!jfadams
jfadams@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Adams) (05/22/91)
In article <1991May19.203709.11638@isc.rit.edu> cms2839@isc.rit.edu (a.stranger) writes: > why not just hit full - screen preview >( F9 ) , and then capture the screen to the clipboard ( PrintScreen ) ? >you will then have a colour bitmap image of the entire screen . > It's not necessary to go into preview to cut a color bitmap to the clipboard. Highlighting the desired objects in wire-frame mode and pressing CONTROL-INSERT will copy the object (color attributes and all) into the clipboard. No, it's not a bitmap, but a metafile--the final form is determined by the destination application. If the clipboard object is pasted into a vector-based application, the resultant image will be vector-based; if it is a bitmaped application such as paintbrush, Windows will convert the metafile to a bitmap. Last thing: it helps to scale the wire-frame CorelDraw object to the desired destination size before copying to the clipboard (most of the time - some apps paste from the clipboard to a fixed size regardless of the size of the original image). -- James F. Adams John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. Everett, Washington USA WORLD:jfadams@tc.fluke.COM UUCP:{ihnp4!uw-beaver,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,decvax!microsoft}!fluke!jfadams