[Weldtutor]

I'm a digital packrat.

Watch out for the "Digital Mousetrap!" :stickpoke

[Weldtutor]

I'm at 7,087

Your screen captures are always very clear.

This attached one was put into Corel Draw 9 & exported as a GIF, my usual technique.

The text is usually very "fuzzy" & images generally are not crisp.

Can you suggest a utility, or method for improvement of the quality of "captures?"

Tnx.
WT

[Switcher]

WT,

Try this for screen captures:

1) Find whatever you need to get a screen shot of web, etc...

2) Make sure you can see all of the image you want to save on your PC monitor.

3) Press the (Print Scr/Sys Rq) button on your keyboard, I run a HP PC with a basic keyboard, most If not all keyboards that run Windows should have this key on the keyboard.

After you press the (Print Scr/Sys Rq) key on the keyboard, what happens is, Windows will take the screenshot & save that in memory (windows clipboard, it is sorta like "Right Click" & "Copy").

4) Open "Microsoft Paint", then click "Edit | Paste", you should now see the image/entire screenshot, that you copied to the "Windows Clipboard"

5) Use the "Select" tool in the Paint program to crop the image, it looks like a dotted line/rectangle in the toolbar, drag a square box around the part of the image you want to save, then "Right Click" on the selected area & select "Copy" (this will save the cropped part of the screenshot to the Windows Clipboard, the part you really want to save)

6) Still inside Windows Paint, select "File | New", a windows prompt will ask you If you want to save the current project, select "NO" this will clear the Windows Paint program, & open a new project.

7) (still with me? ) Now select "Edit | Paste", this will paste the good part of the screenshot that you want to save.

8) Select "File | Save As...", bitmap, jpeg, etc...


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[The Inventor]

Here's a quick side note to that print screen.... (and I don't remember which one works)
but you hold down the CTRL Key or the Shift Key when you hit the print screen key and
it only copies/captures the open window.

You could also go to download.com and look for a "FREE" print screen capture program;
there are hundreds out there.

Bill

[The Inventor]

Well Guys I finally made it to the last page.
I've downloaded a ton of programs along the way... (THANKS TO EVERYONE!)

But the bad news is I was so involved with the thread and getting the programs
that I totally forgot to download the DXF's --- I just looked and I've only got
about 25...... SO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O it's back to square one and start d/l'ing
them..... Thank God I've got 'two' 250GB hard drives on USB just waiting to be
filled. See you in a week or three LOLOLOLOL

I'm gonna 'hammer' Switcher's blog server for sure!

THANKS GUYS!!! You're the greatest.
Just think what we have here.... We're getting feedback and support from all
over the world in almost real time.... FANTASTIC!

Bill

[Weldtutor]

Thanks Switcher,
MS Paint gives much better quality to the screen captures.
It is a definite improvement over using Corel Draw 9 for this.
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[Weldtutor]

Just think what we have here.... We're getting feedback and support from all
over the world in almost real time.... FANTASTIC!

Thanks for your capture suggestions above Bill.

I have a world map beside my PC & find it interesting to locate the many places that the posts come from.

CNC Zone is certainly a "Global Community."

WT in Ontario, Canada.

[alen]

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[alen]

please can enyone help me and convert this picture to solid dxf format for cnc plasma cutter...im new one in this so i will be very gratefull for eny help.sorry for my bad englis.

[Jay C]

To reduce the download times etc the files are archived using a registered copy of the latest version of winzip. Older versions of winzip and some other extractors cannot always extract these files.. so they are provided as self-extracting executables. I update virus signatures and scan all .EXE's religiously prior to upload.

Danny

Have a look at www.7-zip.org for a free universal extractor/compressor

[fitzy]

please can enyone help me and convert this picture to solid dxf format for cnc plasma cutter...im new one in this so i will be very gratefull for eny help.sorry for my bad englis.

can you post a better image maybe better resolution say around 3-600
the better the picture the better the dxf
thanks

[ronald44181000]

can you post a better image maybe better resolution say around 3-600
the better the picture the better the dxf
thanks

Will this dxf suffice.

[Switcher]

Here is a larger bitmap 565x808 of the eagle (jpeg), after it's been vectorized.

This is one of those jobs, you could open the bitmap into a photo edit program (Inkscape, etc...), slice the image down the middle (top to bottom), & delete half the image, then do all your photo/vector edits, make a copy of the good half after edits, flip the copy then weld the two halves.

It would take some work/time, but you could still use the image.


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[The Inventor]

Hey Switcher,
Even after reading every post --- Sometimes I 'think' I got it and then other times I can't
remember my own name.

What we need is another video on the term/use/meaning of "Cleaning/Clean-up"

Next thing I totally don't understand is Why do we have to do editing then save it as a
dxf via Inkscape then open it again in a CAD program to do 'more' editing?

I'm Lost..... or I'm loosing it personally.... hehehe

Bill

[alen]

tnh ronald yours dxf. sure helped me....but i need something more 'clear' so can enyone do the samething with this image...it is better resulution then last one...again sorry for my bad englis...you can find the image on
http://www.konzulat-srbije-rijeka.hr/slike/Mali%20grb%20Srbije%20A4-cmyk.jpg

[ronald44181000]

tnh ronald yours dxf. sure helped me....but i need something more 'clear' so can enyone do the samething with this image...it is better resulution then last one...again sorry for my bad englis...you can find the image on
http://www.konzulat-srbije-rijeka.hr...%20A4-cmyk.jpg

Is this one more to your liking?

[alen]

yes ronald that one is perfect...can you post it in dxf format.

[Switcher]

What we need is another video on the term/use/meaning of "Cleaning/Clean-up"Bill

I'm not sure which post you refer to, you did read all of them , & I've made a bunch of post to this thread over the last year.

Anyway, when I say cleanup, as far as creating a dxf file, when you trace an image (jpeg, bitmap, etc...) with a program such as Inkscape or any other raster to vector program, chances are after the program does the tracing for you, you'll end up with a bunch of Nodes that you don't want or need, this happens a lot because of shading of colors on jpeg & bitmap images.

So removing unwanted nodes & smoothing out vector lines (Bezier curves) is what I'm referring to.

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[Switcher]

Next thing I totally don't understand is Why do we have to do editing then save it as a
dxf via Inkscape then open it again in a CAD program to do 'more' editing?

As far as Inkscape (maybe Wintopo) is to scale the dxf to a size that you need & will fit on your cnc table, I've tried more than once to get Inkscape to output in inches & mm, just wouldn't work, still outputs in pixels.

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[ronald44181000]

For those of you looking for an image resizer, checkout adionSoft Fast Image Resizer. It's a Windows XP and Vista capable piece of freeware. Otherwise you'll need a copy of Rapid Resizer which costs around $40.00.