Re: Top-Posting

Clive George

"Zog The Undeniable" <hrothgar19@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
>
> > Yes, we have similar conventions. Including leaving the sig in place,
> > and including the 18Mb PowerPoint presentation when ccing the entire
> > global address book with the comment that the data is now in...
> >
> > Or, worse, using cc instead of bcc, so that when the clueless lusers
> > click "reply all" to say thanks, you get 800 copies of the same
> > f***ing PowerPoint presentation with a one-line "thanks" at the top...
>
> Our tech support people always send screenshots pasted into Word
> documents as bitmaps, so a perfectly reasonable 20K .gif becomes a 2MB
> monster.

Some versions of word make this work sensibly (ie compress the bitmaps). Not
entirely sure what the magic runes are though.

(yes, I sometimes get the same problem when people send me screenshots)

cheers,
clive

bugbear

Zog The Undeniable wrote:

>
> Our tech support people always send screenshots pasted into Word
> documents as bitmaps, so a perfectly reasonable 20K .gif becomes a 2MB
> monster.

At the risk of being OT, I once received a 2 Mb, uncompressed
screenshot, so that I could read an error message, which could
have been cut 'n' pasted off the screen in about 60 bytes!

BugBear

Clive George

"bugbear" <bugbear@trim_papermule_trim.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Zog The Undeniable wrote:
>
> >
> > Our tech support people always send screenshots pasted into Word
> > documents as bitmaps, so a perfectly reasonable 20K .gif becomes a 2MB
> > monster.
>
> At the risk of being OT, I once received a 2 Mb, uncompressed
> screenshot, so that I could read an error message, which could
> have been cut 'n' pasted off the screen in about 60 bytes!

Only once? You're barely trying.

cheers,
clive

JLB

bugbear wrote:
> Zog The Undeniable wrote:
>
>>
>> Our tech support people always send screenshots pasted into Word
>> documents as bitmaps, so a perfectly reasonable 20K .gif becomes a 2MB
>> monster.
>
>
> At the risk of being OT, I once received a 2 Mb, uncompressed
> screenshot, so that I could read an error message, which could
> have been cut 'n' pasted off the screen in about 60 bytes!

This interests me. I am currently trying to sort out a problem that
involves error messages that appear within a particular application. I
can find no way to select the content of the error message so I can copy
it and paste it into an email to tech support.

Any idea how I can perform this trick? I really am tired of transcribing
several lines of script each time, and I agree with you that sending
screenshots is not much of an answer.

--
Joe * If I cannot be free I'll be cheap

Tony Raven

JLB wrote:
>
> Any idea how I can perform this trick? I really am tired of transcribing
> several lines of script each time, and I agree with you that sending
> screenshots is not much of an answer.
>

Do a screen capture, clip it down to the message only and save in
compressed format which is marginally slower than transcribing it
usually ;-)

Tony

Clive George

"Tony Raven" <junk@raven-family.com> wrote in message
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> JLB wrote:
> >
> > Any idea how I can perform this trick? I really am tired of transcribing
> > several lines of script each time, and I agree with you that sending
> > screenshots is not much of an answer.
> >
>
> Do a screen capture, clip it down to the message only and save in
> compressed format which is marginally slower than transcribing it
> usually ;-)

Don't forget a window capture is quite a lot smaller (alt-prtscn on windows
boxes)

cheers,
clive