On 16 Apr 2002, at 14:27, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 02:09 PM 4/16/02 -0400, Phil Daley wrote: > >I just did a screen capture of a few measures and pasted it into > >Word. That seems to work well. > > I've learned that one Windows feature is not very well known. You don't > need to use the screen capture feature of a graphics application. Pressing > the Windows "Print Screen" key will do it (at least up through Win98SE). > > The advantage of this is speed, avoiding the menus and escape sequences > that most graphics applications go through. You can capture, ALT+TAB, paste > screen as you're working, ALT+TAB back to your application, and repeat. You > can then edit the lot of them later. > > So if you only need a few bars in Finale, open Finale and your graphics > app. Zoom in to those few measures, hit "Print Screen", ALT+TAB to the > graphics app, paste, ALT+TAB back to Finale, find the next batch of > measures, and repeat. When you're done, trim, save, and you'll have fairly > good-resolution images to paste into Word for printing.
But the results may very well be vastly inferior to the results of using Finale's native graphics export, as the results depend on the screen resolution and the zoom percentage of the displayed file onscreen. With the graphics save you can control the resolution for a TIFF or choose EPS if you have a PostScript printer. Both are superior in quality to a garden variety screen capture, not to mention not requiring all that cropping to get it down to the appropriate size. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
