Solve : can not print from paint?

1.	Solve : can not print from paint?
Answer» Greetings, windows 7 home premium. For years if I wanted to print a screenshot - PrtScn, copy to paint, change layout to landscape and FIT to 1 by 1. and it is not working for me (only getting about a 1/4 of the picture) Is there something different about paint in Win 7? I've had this computer for 2 years and thought for sure I had USED this method before, or was that for XP ? Thanks.You are probably pasting a picture to large for canvas size. Try pasting in Wordpad to see if you get the entire picture. Quote from: glathem40 on November 18, 2013, 08:48:55 AM Is there something different about paint in Win 7? Not as far as this technique is concerned. It should work. Sorry, I do not know what the problem is. However, you could use the Snipping Tool in Windows 7. You can find it in Accessories in the Programs Menu. It's a very handy tool for capturing screen prints. You can save the image from Snipping Tool. Snipping Tool is more flexible in selecting selecting the area you capture. If you still want to crop or modify the image, you can open it in Paint to do that. Quote from: Chrisxs5 on November 18, 2013, 09:28:45 AM You are probably pasting a picture to large for canvas size. Try pasting in Wordpad to see if you get the entire picture. I don't believe canvas size is an issue here. Paint should accept any size screen print regardless of the size of the canvas when Paint is opened. Actually canvas SETTINGS have a lot to do with it. Canvas settings for the program can vary depending on individual machines and Windows install builds. Also Paint does not ask any canvas size questions when pasting from the clipboard, it assumes that you have already set the size in which you need and then places your paste into the top left corner. Other programs such as Paint.net do not make these assumptions and ask if you would like to adjust during a paste. Lets say the default canvas setting is 800x600 and the users screen setting is 1920x1080, when pasting the full screen would not fit into the canvas. Now the easy way to test this before moving onto other solutions, is to paste into Wordpad which by default reduces any clipboard object to fit within its pages. Allowing us to make sure we are getting full copies to the clipboard. REMEMBER this would be a troubleshooting process.Chris, I hear your reasoning and it's logical but Paint simply does not work that way. I presume we have the same concept of the canvas; it's the drawing area when you open Paint. You cannot use any of Paint's drawing tools outside of the canvas area. But, when doing a screen capture, Paint accepts the image pasted into it, regardless of how large the image is, regardless of whether that image is larger than the canvas size when a new Paint window was opened. In other words, Paint enlarges the canvas to fit the pasted image. This adjusted canvas size is temporary. If you save that pasted image to a file, close Paint, and reopen it, the canvas size reverts back to its size before that pasting of a larger image into it. Quote from: Chrisxs5 on November 19, 2013, 06:25:24 AM Also Paint does not ask any canvas size questions when pasting from the clipboard, it assumes that you have already set the size in which you need and then places your paste into the top left corner. Think about what you just said, Does it make sense? In effect, you're saying that the user must determine the size of an image before pasting it into Paint to be sure that part of their image does not get cut off. Fortunately, that is not necessary, as I explained above. Quote Canvas settings for the program can vary depending on individual machines and Windows install builds. No, it does not. The default canvas size is, I'm sure, the same on any new Windows system with default settings. But, even if the size on new machines is varied for some reason, it is irrelevant to the issue here since Paint accepts whatever size image is pasted into it, regardless of the canvas size immediately before the paste action. Thanks for the responses (sorry for the delay). The size of the image on the screen is really not the issue, what I want to do is simply print a screen shot (regardless of the size of the image on the screen at that time). I know that there are plenty of programs, ways ect. print a screen shot, but I really wanted to paste this image into paint because I wanted to add a word balloon to the image. The problem is properly printing the image. The method to print the image that I described in my first POST has worked for me for years ( I know on XP but i'm not sure about win 7). Thanks and Cheers !Let's clarify a point that I thinks clarification? Are you talking printing on paper? If so, what size sheets?

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Greetings,
windows 7 home premium. For years if I wanted to print a screenshot - PrtScn, copy to paint, change layout to landscape and FIT to 1 by 1. and it is not working for me (only getting about a 1/4 of the picture) Is there something different about paint in Win 7? I've had this computer for 2 years and thought for sure I had USED this method before, or was that for XP ? Thanks.You are probably pasting a picture to large for canvas size. Try pasting in Wordpad to see if you get the entire picture. Quote from: glathem40 on November 18, 2013, 08:48:55 AM

Is there something different about paint in Win 7?

Not as far as this technique is concerned. It should work. Sorry, I do not know what the problem is. However, you could use the Snipping Tool in Windows 7. You can find it in Accessories in the Programs Menu. It's a very handy tool for capturing screen prints. You can save the image from Snipping Tool. Snipping Tool is more flexible in selecting selecting the area you capture. If you still want to crop or modify the image, you can open it in Paint to do that.

Quote from: Chrisxs5 on November 18, 2013, 09:28:45 AM

You are probably pasting a picture to large for canvas size. Try pasting in Wordpad to see if you get the entire picture.

I don't believe canvas size is an issue here. Paint should accept any size screen print regardless of the size of the canvas when Paint is opened. Actually canvas SETTINGS have a lot to do with it. Canvas settings for the program can vary depending on individual machines and Windows install builds. Also Paint does not ask any canvas size questions when pasting from the clipboard, it assumes that you have already set the size in which you need and then places your paste into the top left corner. Other programs such as Paint.net do not make these assumptions and ask if you would like to adjust during a paste. Lets say the default canvas setting is 800x600 and the users screen setting is 1920x1080, when pasting the full screen would not fit into the canvas. Now the easy way to test this before moving onto other solutions, is to paste into Wordpad which by default reduces any clipboard object to fit within its pages. Allowing us to make sure we are getting full copies to the clipboard. REMEMBER this would be a troubleshooting process.Chris, I hear your reasoning and it's logical but Paint simply does not work that way. I presume we have the same concept of the canvas; it's the drawing area when you open Paint. You cannot use any of Paint's drawing tools outside of the canvas area. But, when doing a screen capture, Paint accepts the image pasted into it, regardless of how large the image is, regardless of whether that image is larger than the canvas size when a new Paint window was opened. In other words, Paint enlarges the canvas to fit the pasted image.

This adjusted canvas size is temporary. If you save that pasted image to a file, close Paint, and reopen it, the canvas size reverts back to its size before that pasting of a larger image into it.

Quote from: Chrisxs5 on November 19, 2013, 06:25:24 AM

Also Paint does not ask any canvas size questions when pasting from the clipboard, it assumes that you have already set the size in which you need and then places your paste into the top left corner.

Think about what you just said, Does it make sense? In effect, you're saying that the user must determine the size of an image before pasting it into Paint to be sure that part of their image does not get cut off. Fortunately, that is not necessary, as I explained above.

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Canvas settings for the program can vary depending on individual machines and Windows install builds.

No, it does not. The default canvas size is, I'm sure, the same on any new Windows system with default settings. But, even if the size on new machines is varied for some reason, it is irrelevant to the issue here since Paint accepts whatever size image is pasted into it, regardless of the canvas size immediately before the paste action. Thanks for the responses (sorry for the delay). The size of the image on the screen is really not the issue, what I want to do is simply print a screen shot (regardless of the size of the image on the screen at that time). I know that there are plenty of programs, ways ect. print a screen shot, but I really wanted to paste this image into paint because I wanted to add a word balloon to the image. The problem is properly printing the image. The method to print the image that I described in my first POST has worked for me for years ( I know on XP but i'm not sure about win 7). Thanks and Cheers !Let's clarify a point that I thinks clarification? Are you talking printing on paper? If so, what size sheets?

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