us293895@mmm.serc.3m.com (Robert G. Kaires) (10/31/90)
I am using Paintbrush which comes in Windows 3.0. I cut a picture in Paintbrush, putting it into the clipboard. I then enter Word for Windows, and paste. The problem is this: the apparent size of the pasted graphic come in two sizes (one about 50% of the other). This seems to happen at random (we can't seem to reproduce this error at will). It appears to have something to do with copying and moving parts of the graphic in Paintbrush. In Word, the format picture command claims that the actual size and scaling are identical, yet they are of different size on the screen AND are of different size when printed out. Has anyone seen a problem like this? Any suggestions appreciated. Bob Kaires
kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES) (11/07/90)
In article <1990Oct30.235715.5712@mmm.serc.3m.com> us293895@mmm.serc.3m.com (Robert G. Kaires) writes: >I am using Paintbrush which comes in Windows 3.0. I cut a picture >in Paintbrush, putting it into the clipboard. I then enter Word for >Windows, and paste. The problem is this: the apparent size of the pasted >graphic come in two sizes (one about 50% of the other). This seems to >happen at random (we can't seem to reproduce this error at will). It >appears to have something to do with copying and moving parts of the >graphic in Paintbrush. In Word, the format picture command claims that >the actual size and scaling are identical, yet they are of different >size on the screen AND are of different size when printed out. Has >anyone seen a problem like this? Any suggestions appreciated. > >Bob Kaires This isn't a random problem. Bitmaps can have dimension information associated with them, and Paintbrush supplies this information for bitmaps placed on the clipboard. Problem is, color images are converted to black and white BUT the dimension information is not transferred. Word doesn't make a copy if the clipboard image is already black and white. So, if you put black and white images in the clipboard they will size properly. This bug occurs in both WFW and Write. Ken Sykes Disclaimer: The above opinions are solely my own.