Copying tutorials from SF's website ??

jboy wrote on 12/27/2001, 2:14 PM
This is a bit off the point, but maybe of interest to a few people on this forum. I'd like to copy out some of the tutorials on SF's website, for easier access off line, but using the Print Screen command just gives me crappy looking lo-rez images, no matter what I seem to do. You cant print them out because they're of irregular length and span more than one page, with the ends of pages frequently cutting thru illustrations. So, how do you copy graphics and text off a computer screen, at the same resolution you're looking at, and save them to a file on your computer. Anybody know ?

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Chienworks wrote on 12/27/2001, 3:15 PM
This is exactly what the Print Screen key does. Pressing it causes Windows
to copy your current display, exactly as you see it (minus the cursor and
any video overlay windows) to an image on the clipboard. You can then
paste this image into any photo editing program and print from there.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by lo-rez. The image you get this way
will be the same resolution as the image on your screen. True, screen
resolution isn't as good as print resolution can be. But what you get in
the Print Screen image won't be worse than what you saw on the screen.

The tutorials are also just plain web pages. If you right-mouse-click on
"Begin Here", you can open the tutorial in a new browser window and it
will have the full menus and command buttons across the top. You can
use the browser's built in print function then, and it will render the text
as true-type fonts on the printer whenever possible. However, you can
still have pictures broken across page boundries that way. I suppose you
could play with the margins in print preview mode for a bit and that can
rearrage where the page breaks will occur.
wvg wrote on 12/27/2001, 3:56 PM
There are several tutorials on the CD (according to the quick guide book) and several threads mentioned links to more (very large) tutorials on a web site. Unless you have broadband, probably too big a project to download via dial-up. If i remember right those were around 200MB. That's kind of big. ;-)
FadeToBlack wrote on 12/27/2001, 4:08 PM