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Robert:
I am not sure if the following will help. I embed lots of BB views
directly in PowerPoint or Word. I was surprised when I discovered one day
that I can display and even edit the PPT presentations on a machine that
does not have BB installed. PowerPoint somehow shows an image because
it cannot call BB if it is not there. I was even more surprised
when I moved the edited PPT slides back to the machine where there was BB,
and the views were still live BB views.
I also noticed, this time with less pleasure, that under Windows
the files with embedded images grow up very quickly size-wse.
This happens with BB documents, but also Word or PowerPoint.
I embed a .png file that is 50kB large on disk, save the document
to disk, and it can be megabytes. At first I thought it was some
BB flaw, but the same thing happens with Word. I have no idea
why it is so inefficient, and whether it has any connection with
your specific question, but it might.
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Campbell, Robert D (UK Edinburgh) wrote:
> I would like a (very simple to use) way of pasting a selected BlackBox
> View as a Bitmap into other applications (such as Paint and especially
> Powerpoint).
>
> There are many options for getting to Powerpoint.
>
> However, unless I go via Paint, Powerpoint does not recognise the result
> as Bitmap (the Powerpoint Paste Special options are BlackBox View or
> Picture, not Bitmap).
>
> All the options (including the BlackBox Paste Special option 'Picture (Bitmap)'
> into a BlackBox Document) cause various distortions in the View - eg Vertical
> Fonts are incorrect, rectangles align incorrectly. (The only exception is to do
> a full screen capture, then clip out the required bit in Paint. Tedious and
> inaccurate.)
>
> Has anyone written some code that will simply capture the selected View, and
> paste it as a simple Bitmap onto the Clipboard?
>
> Cheers
>
> Robert Campbell
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