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Subject:Re: Need help sizing bitmaps -Reply From:Jack DeLand <adamchar -at- CHAMBER -dot- ANN-ARBOR -dot- MI -dot- US> Date:Fri, 3 May 1996 17:15:56 -0400
You may find it cleaner to cut and paste excess material out of the bitmap -
programmers are notoriously sloppy in dialog design.
Beats getting an anti-aliased "shrunken" bitmap with gray fuzzies.
At 03:14 PM 5/3/96 -0600, you wrote:
>>>> Bruce WHITE <WHITE -at- MSN -dot- COM> 05/03/96 01:26pm >>>
>Kris Olberg <kjolberg -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM>
>>Does anyone have a good technique for sizing bitmap captures of
>full-size
>>Windows dialog boxes to a reasonable size,
>There are probably better ways, but I do that a lot. I put the image into
>Corel Draw, crop away all of the junk, then import into PhotoShop
>and size.
>It isn't hard for me because I always have both up and running--takes
>me about 20 secs to crop and size and save.
>Dave (Cogito ergo falsus sum.) Hailey
>USU and all that stuff.
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