#3 the way screengrabs are stored in clipboard

[Anonymous]

I am a professional tester, and while testing new Oracle db functionality, I have to grab a lot of screens and report them using MS Word.

Before I used a small screengrab program, called ZapGrab. This program isn't so advanced as Capturedit, but it stores the grabbed screen in the clipboard as well.. When pasting a grabbed screen in Word, the image can be pasted (Paste special) as "Bitmap" or as "Device-independant Bitmap" (default).

Now I use Capturedit, I can paste the image also in these formats, but also in other formats: "Figure", "Figure (enhanced metafile)", "Figure (PNG)" (default), "Figure (JPEG)". Since the default is now not anymore "Device-independant Bitmap", all sorts of special settings (like text indenting) are different.

Since this is a MS Word feature, it's a problem for MS Word, not Capturedit, which makes it a user problem which means the user will have to change a lot of settings of the pasted image.

Still, I would like to encourage a setting in Capturedit, which enables the user to specify how the screengrab should be stored in the clipboard: for example, only in the "Bitmap" format.

I have attached the different outcomes of pasting a ZapGrab screengrab, and pasting a Capturedit screengrab. Also the Windows binary of ZapGrab is included.

For free the ZapGrab tool is downloadable here: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zap/zapgrab.zip

Thnx for reading this, i like your program!

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Outcomes of pasting a ZapGrab / a Captureedit

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Thanks for the input. I'm having trouble duplicating your experience. What version of MS Word are you using?

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It's MS Word 2000 (dutch version) ... but i think it should work the same in any language MS Word version. I use MSWord in WinXP.

I just find the way it's pasted in MSWord is different from what you would expect ..
not neccessarily use ZapGrab, just paste it once without doing anything else,
then paste it again, but first paste/copy it in the little Paint program that comes with WinXP.

Regards!

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Alright, thanks for following up. I've looked into the issue and though I can't completely duplicate it (only have ms office 2003), there are certainly many 'flavors' available for formats of pasted images. Capturedit uses the jre provided imageFlavor which opens up these flavors. To limit which flavors that are available you can edit the flavormap.properties file in the /jre/lib folder (for instance mine's in C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_11\jre\lib). Capturedit uses a 1.5 jre, so if you have a couple installed make sure you get the one in use (should be the latest). In that properties file comment out the Native identifiers you don't want made available to office (note: this will effect all your java applications in copy and paste or drag and drop). For example I commented out:

#ENHMETAFILE=image/x-java-image;class=java.awt.Image
#METAFILEPICT=image/x-java-image;class=java.awt.Image

And now the MS word paste special options are reduced. Please confirm if this solves your issue. Thanks!