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| Saving and Printing the Screen |
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It is possible to save the entire screen as an image file and also to print the screen image out directly to a printer within ScotWeave. This can be useful for reference purposes, for producing teaching notes and also for passing information back to ScotWeave. The procedures for this are described below - Saving the Screen In Windows you can save the current screen image (the entire screen) to the Windows clipboard by pressing the Print Screen key on the keyboard. This key is usually located at the top of the keyboard to the right of the Function keys. This function is available in all software, not only ScotWeave. Having saved the screen image to the clipboard you can retrieve this image using any graphics program that accesses the Windows clipboard. Once retrieved, you can save the image to file or print it as required. In Artwork Designer use the Edit - Windows Clipboard - Paste - As New menu selection to retrieve the image from the clipboard. Once you have done this you will see the screen image inside a new image window. You can edit and save this image exactly as any other image. Note that you can only save one image to the clipboard using this technique. If you press the Print Screen key again then Windows clipboard will be overwritten with the current screen image. Printing The Screen You can use the above technique to save the current screen image, open it in Artwork Designer (or some other graphics software) and then print it. In some of the main ScotWeave programs, however, there is a more direct method for printing the screen. Use the menu option File - Print Screen where this is available. This will send the entire screen image (including window borders, taskbars etc.) to the Windows printer. |