it turns pink...
Not sure if this has to be posted here, but anyway:
I made a screenshot of the Google mainpage. You all know that there's a lot of white in it. When I save the screenshot as jpg, gif or bmp and import it in a MS Word doc, the white turns into pink. Even when I make a print on paper, it's pink.
I even deleted the white and made it transparent. This doesn't help either...
Why does this happen and/or how can I prevent this?
Thanx,
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disaster-master posted this at 14:31 — 5th March 2002.
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Hmmm...that is odd. I just saved the google as a jpg and then inserted it into MS word and it looks normal. Maybe you computer is possessed. LOL
Jack Michaelson posted this at 14:44 — 5th March 2002.
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I think that must be it
anyway, here's a screenshot
pretty strange huh?
The Webmistress posted this at 15:10 — 5th March 2002.
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I would say that it's Jack that is possessed! But something odd is up with your pc as it's fine when I do it!
Jack Michaelson posted this at 15:32 — 5th March 2002.
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Some collegues here tried the same on their computers, with the same effect... it keeps turning pink
btw. Whether I'm possessed or not is not the case here
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The Webmistress posted this at 16:22 — 5th March 2002.
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Ok, maybe it's your office that's possessed!
Megan posted this at 16:40 — 5th March 2002.
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I get a little bit of pinkness - could have something to do with colour calibration...
Jack Michaelson posted this at 16:40 — 5th March 2002.
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See? I'm not possessed
Any ideas on how to prevent it?
mmi posted this at 19:03 — 5th March 2002.
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here it is
Busy posted this at 21:15 — 5th March 2002.
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I think it could just be your screen, past its best used by date maybe
mine does the same.
I figured it was cause I had a cheap screen, way around it is save it as whatever format then change the pink to white in graphics program.
jpg's tend to change colors on heavy compression as well, my gifs, bmps and jpgs can go pink, yellowy or blueish depending on surrounding colors.
Jack Michaelson posted this at 08:21 — 6th March 2002.
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That's what I eventually thought too. But the pink appears also when printing the Word-doc on paper.
cdscl posted this at 21:21 — 6th March 2002.
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how do you make screenshots? Do you take pictures of your screen with a digital camera???
Megan posted this at 21:23 — 6th March 2002.
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Um.. no... what you do is hit the print screen button on your keyboard (over beside F12), which makes a copy of whatever's on the screen and puts it into the clipboard. Then go into your graphics program and paste into a new document. If you use alt-print screen you'll only get the active window.
On a semi-related note, what do "Scroll Lock" and "Pause/Break" do?
If I remember I'll try this google screenshot thing at home. Does the same thing happen with screenshots taken of other white items or is it just Google's? And is it only when pasting into Word that you see the pink or does it happen with other things?
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Jack Michaelson posted this at 21:47 — 6th March 2002.
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No Megan! Stop! Did you forget what *they* always say??? DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!!
Ehm... anyway:
) and... the pink does not appear!
It's not only Google. I just used that as an example. Right now I'm at home, I just did try it at home (why didn't I come up whit that myself?
Seems that Busy was right when saying it had to do with the screen's age. Thanx!
Ehm... dunno. I don't remember ever using them...
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mmi posted this at 04:10 — 7th March 2002.
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Scroll Lock key
A key on PC and enhanced Macintosh keyboards that controls the way the cursor control keys work for some programs. Many applications ignore the Scroll Lock setting.
Pause key
A key that you can use to temporarily halt the display of data. Generally, you use the Pause key to freeze data that is being scrolled on the display screen. To continue scrolling, you can press any key.
In DOS, an alternative to using the Pause key is to use the MORE command, which displays one screenful of data at a time.
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Busy posted this at 07:45 — 7th March 2002.
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... To continue scrolling, you can press any key.
I have to ask, where is the "any key"
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 08:07 — 14th March 2002.
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Why, next to any other key, of course.
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