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Question about;"Yes More! More signs for your layout"
Posted by cowman on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 8:41 PM

Since there are multiple pages (to say the least) how does one get only the page I want to print?  I do not see page numbers in the margin or elsewhere.  Also, I don't see a print screen spot.  Maybe I don't know where to look.

Didn't want to put it in that thread, it would get lost.

Thank you,

Richard

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Posted by richhotrain on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 4:28 AM

I have never used any of tomkat's signs, but early on in his thread he indicated that the desired sign should be copied and pasted into one of a variety of programs such as MS Word, Photoshop, MS Paint, etc. and then resize it.

If I wanted to use one of his signs, I would use my screen capture program, Hard Copy, to copy and paste the desired sign into MS PowerPoint and then resize it using the "Lock Aspect Ratio" feature to keep the original height and width dimensions. You do lose some clarity, though, as the image is resized.

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Posted by BigDaddy on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:19 AM

There are 2 Windows tools: Snip and Sketch and Snipping Tool that allow you to capture any part of the screen and save it as a jpg file

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Posted by xdford on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 5:45 PM

Hi there,

Both of the previous answers are correct although I m not familiar with the snipping tool. 

I installed Paint (available as a free download from Microsoft.com) as I was fairly familiar with it. So...

1.  Have Paint open as well as your Word Processor or drawing package and the sheet Tomkat made.

2  Right click on the sheet and select "Copy Image"

3  Click on "Paint" and paste the image to Paint using Control V. The whole sheet will copy over to Paint

4. Using the Select Tool in Paint, select the image/poster/sign you want.  Press Control C.

5. Switch to the Word Processor or Drawing package you have and resize it!

Doing it this way, you can construct your own sheet using multiples of the same signs where appropriate and print off to your hearts content! Just remember to leave your margins!

Cheers from Australia

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Posted by cowman on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 7:28 PM

Thank you for your responses.  

As I feared, your answers would be in Greek.  Fortunately I have a son in the house that is familiar with Greek, at least computer Greek.   Would have had to call on my grandfather to handle real Greek.  

Now to pick a couple of signs and see if I can get him to show me sometime.  He's an essential worker, so I don't see him as much.

Thanks again for the answers,

Richard

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Posted by richhotrain on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:00 PM

cowman

Thank you for your responses.  

As I feared, your answers would be in Greek.  

Αν ήθελα να χρησιμοποιήσω ένα από τα σημάδια του, θα χρησιμοποιούσα το πρόγραμμα καταγραφής οθόνης, το Hard Copy, για να αντιγράψω και να επικολλήσω το επιθυμητό σήμα στο MS PowerPoint και μετά να το αλλάξω μέγεθος χρησιμοποιώντας τη λειτουργία "Lock Aspect Ratio" για να διατηρήσω το αρχικό ύψος και πλάτος διαστάσεις. Χάνετε όμως κάποια σαφήνεια, καθώς το μέγεθος της εικόνας αλλάζει.

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Posted by rrinker on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 9:07 PM

 There's always MS Paint, too, you can open the file then draw a box around the sign you want and crop out the reset.

 That's what all these options come down to - you draw a box around the one you want, which allows you to save just the single sign in its own file, or just print it. Certainly none of the true computer Greek of trying to use a complex program like Photoshop.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 9:14 PM

richhotrain
cowman Thank you for your responses.   As I feared, your answers would be in Greek.   Αν ήθελα να χρησιμοποιήσω ένα από τα σημάδια του, θα χρησιμοποιούσα το πρόγραμμα καταγραφής οθόνης, το Hard Copy, για να αντιγράψω και να επικολλήσω το επιθυμητό σήμα στο MS PowerPoint και μετά να το αλλάξω μέγεθος χρησιμοποιώντας τη λειτουργία "Lock Aspect Ratio" για να διατηρήσω το αρχικό ύψος και πλάτος διαστάσεις. Χάνετε όμως κάποια σαφήνεια, καθώς το μέγεθος της εικόνας αλλάζει.

Thanks Rich, now I understand Yes Easy as pie!  Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by richhotrain on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 9:19 PM

mbinsewi
 
richhotrain
cowman Thank you for your responses.   As I feared, your answers would be in Greek.   Αν ήθελα να χρησιμοποιήσω ένα από τα σημάδια του, θα χρησιμοποιούσα το πρόγραμμα καταγραφής οθόνης, το Hard Copy, για να αντιγράψω και να επικολλήσω το επιθυμητό σήμα στο MS PowerPoint και μετά να το αλλάξω μέγεθος χρησιμοποιώντας τη λειτουργία "Lock Aspect Ratio" για να διατηρήσω το αρχικό ύψος και πλάτος διαστάσεις. Χάνετε όμως κάποια σαφήνεια, καθώς το μέγεθος της εικόνας αλλάζει. 

Thanks Rich, now I understand Yes Easy as pie!  Smile, Wink & Grin

Mike. 

Or, as they say in Greek, easy as Pi.   Laugh

Rich

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Posted by Santa Fe all the way! on Thursday, April 16, 2020 5:11 AM

You could just do a screen shot with your phone and email the photos to a local printer. They can size them however you want. That's what I do. 

Come on CMW, make a '41-'46 Chevy school bus!

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