Re: [Audacity-devel] Suggestion - copy waveform as an image

[Anthony A. O. <Ant...@ep...>]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:51:12 -0700 (PDT), Matt Brubeck wrote:

>On Jun 13, Janice Bilington wrote:
>
>> I have been using Audacity (though not to its full capacity) and am very
>> happy with it. I do however have a suggestion. The waveforms are very
>> interesting. As far as I can tell from playing with the software and reading
>> the documentation, it is not possible to 'extract' a waveform as an image
>> (.bmp, say) which could then be copied into a document.
>
>We may add this feature at some point -- I have also used Audacity to generate
>images.  In the current version of Audacity you can simply take a screenshot
>of the Audacity window, and edit it in a paint program to copy the waveform.
>
>In Windows I believe that Alt-Printscreen or Ctrl-Printscreen will copy a
>screenshot of the current window (the other copies the whole screen).

For an exellent screenshot utility try XnView, which is freeware. I make all my
screenshots with it.
http://www.xnview.com/

Don't forget that you can scale the tracks in Audacity by using Zoom and
vertical zooming.
 Tony