Author Topic: [ALT] [S] to save screen  (Read 260 times)

Offline Mickey1992

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[ALT] [S] to save screen
« on: December 19, 1999, 05:04:00 PM »
Is [ALT]  supposed to be working? I searched this BB and could not find a reference to it.

If I do a "save screen" [ALT]  it appears to save a ahssx.bmp file in my "Aces High" directory, but this file is not a valid .bmp file. At least that is what PSP tells me.

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Shawn "Mickey" McCormick

Offline Tibbets

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[ALT] [S] to save screen
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 1999, 05:47:00 PM »
ive never had any problems with screen shots. Sounds like youve got a program that doesnt read bitmaps trying to open it. try opening paint then, select file, open then point it to the screen shot.

Offline Mickey1992

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[ALT] [S] to save screen
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 1999, 01:16:00 PM »
You are right, I can open the screenshots in MS Paint. I do not know why Paint Shop Pro 4 does not work.
I have never had any problems with PSP before so I wonder if there isn't something weird with the file.

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Offline SC-GreyBeard

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[ALT] [S] to save screen
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 1999, 11:38:00 AM »
Open it and save it with MSpaint.
Then try it with any other,, should work.

My MSphoto editor will not open them either unless saved 1st with MSpaint

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Offline Thunder

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[ALT] [S] to save screen
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 1999, 12:41:00 PM »
I do it regularly by opening it up in MS Paint and then use the "copy" feature. I have Photoshop 5.5 opened and minimized and click it to open and use "new". Then I paste to Photoshop file and can save it as .psd file or flatten image and save it in whatever format is desired. This is nice if you want just a portion of the screenshot to send to your buddies. You can crop and or reduce to make file faster. Hope this helps.

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Offline glars

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[ALT] [S] to save screen
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 1999, 01:26:00 PM »
Mickey it's the way AH (and WB) save them.

Get a more recent version of PSP (5 or 6) and you'll be able to open them OK.

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