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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).
Yes, there is lots of cleverness somewhere. However I
find that it often (usually) crashes Powerpoint, and
NEVER looks quite right.
What I want is to turn off ALL the cleverness, and copy
a very dumb (device independant ?) bitmap of a selected
view, and get it reliably, easily, and pixel perfect
into other applications. Is this too much to ask?
Robert
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