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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature Requests For Region Captures - Use Arrow Keys and Solid Region Lines

« Last post by tomos on September 11, 2013, 02:07 PM »

I have no idea - but imagine that making line the inverse of the background colour is no men feat, if at all possible.
How about simply a slightly heavier dashed line for the cross-hairs line ?
Or, I was going to say 'marching ants' - but I see that's used for the selected area...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: greyscale + negative for Auto Print

« Last post by tomos on September 11, 2013, 01:45 PM »

For auto-print do you use the post-capture dialogue?
Is there any way to print an image @ 100% - I have to ask myself what is 100% when converted to a page, and I'm not sure.
But this is what I get when I use the post-capture dialogue and choose "Normal" (*not* 'Fit to page' or 'Stretch to page'):



NB: the height of the white area there is A4 width (210mm - I got it very roughly that size on screen here) - (the page is landscape format)
The original image is this size:



But the main point is that it's definitely been enlarged a lot - enlarged to page size.
I believe this is related to the behaviour when creating PDF's using a scanner - images are also enlarged to page size as oppoised to keeping actual measurement. See here for more details.
With the screenshot, as said, I'm not sure what 'actual' measurement is when printed ...

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Living Room / Re: The Science of Snobbery

« Last post by tomos on September 10, 2013, 05:54 PM »

It was an interesting read, but very fragmented. I struggled with the whole see-saw thing with all the examples.
Attempting to define intuition in more depth would have been helpful - I thought he made a few assumptions en route.

This quote really confused me:

I'm not claiming that the predictions of experts are fundamentally worthless. … Take doctors. They're often excellent when it comes to short-term predictions. But they're often quite poor in predicting how a patient will be doing in five or 10 years. And they don't know the difference. That's the key.

"They dont know the difference" - how exactly?
"That's the key" - to what?
and then I ask why is he quoting this - and I cannot see.

The Mark Zuckerberg reference went over my head as well - no, I didnt follow the link (I presume I shouldn't *have* to in order to understand this article). Sometimes I'm slow in picking up on things, but other times I pick up on things that others just read over - not sure which is going on here.

The intuition thing definitely is interesting - I tried to explain my comment above (about assumptions), but found myself floundering a bit... maybe another time.

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Living Room / Re: The Science of Snobbery

« Last post by tomos on September 10, 2013, 01:39 PM »

Read the first section, and dont really relate much (note: I'm no big fan of 'high-culture', the opposite in fact, but I do love music, including classical).
I was wondering was there a telling quote that would inspire me to read further

No worries, I'm reading onwards

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General Software Discussion / Re: Resident search inside eml files and thoses from Thunderbird

« Last post by tomos on September 10, 2013, 05:58 AM »

I thought eml files were just like text files (yes - I just opened one in notepad), i.e. I wouldn't have thought that any search and/or indexing programme would have a problem reading them.

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UrlSnooper / Re: I am unable to determine th URL of Costa del Mar Radio

« Last post by tomos on September 10, 2013, 05:45 AM »

nice music too switch

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Living Room / Re: The Best Job Around the World

« Last post by tomos on September 10, 2013, 05:40 AM »

Very well done all right

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Should SSC ask to save changes when there are none?

« Last post by tomos on September 09, 2013, 09:40 AM »

There was a bug like that before IIRC - maybe it's back.
Wrong software - I was thinking of InfoQube

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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: need help setting up grid with a large display

« Last post by tomos on September 09, 2013, 09:34 AM »

The most helpful hint I can give you is to look for 'GridMove' in the DonationCoder forum. You will get a link to a piece of software with which you can create your desired setup. Searching for that term will also lead to a lot of pages with suggestions on how to use it.

And if all that may fail to get the setup you want, contact DonationCoder member jgpaiva, to my understanding he is the author of GridMove.

-Shades (September 08, 2013, 05:33 PM)

i have gridmove but i cant figure how to code this specific setup that is what im asking hel[ with

-fallen1011 (September 08, 2013, 06:46 PM)

I cant help directly (never having made one myself), but have you had a look here -
GridMove Grid Making Tutorial
or in this thread:
GridMove: Grids Here
(you might be able to modify one of the multi-monitor grids)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The Great Screenshot Captor Ruler Debate Thread

« Last post by tomos on September 08, 2013, 03:15 PM »

^is the ruler measuring the pixels?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Poor man's 'gallery view' in Screenshot Capture

« Last post by tomos on September 08, 2013, 03:11 PM »

If SC itself could be induced (optionally) to search and display a flat view of the contents of its own sub-folders, that would pretty much do it for me.

-cranioscopical (September 08, 2013, 02:06 PM)

yes, that would be a great feature.


Re using an external app with SC:
Possibly not an important point but I mention in case -
Trying to use image viewers as default 'openers' for images never played well with file managers in my experience. I would normally lose the sorting when viewing (manager would be sorted e.g. by date, viewer would cycle through images by name). Gave up in the end and stuck with Dopus's own viewer. Suspect that could be a problem with SC and external viewer too.

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Living Room / Re: Making a new page of "DonationCoder's Favorite Web Sites" - suggestions?

« Last post by tomos on September 08, 2013, 06:40 AM »

Any recommendation for hardware?
- I mean with reviews, etc.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on September 07, 2013, 01:59 PM »

This was actually # 9,000 from 40hz:

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Living Room / Re: Designers discuss the new Yahoo Logo: "Logo, Bullshit and Co., Inc."

« Last post by tomos on September 07, 2013, 03:12 AM »

He seems as much upset by the presentation as by the logo itself. This does makes sense to me, as a new logo is like a new face, it's saying we're making a fresh start. And a fresh start needs a bit of omph. Or something.

One could argue that we can’t say if this is bad brand management. Unless we know what the brand ambition, the brand architecture, and the brand strategy is, we ought to have no opinion. Maybe the logo does exactly what it is supposed to do. Because really, it doesn’t matter whether it looks pretty, or whether someone likes or dislikes the purple or the scallops. The Coca-Cola logo was not designed by a professional designer, it is typographically hideous, but that doesn’t matter. Brand identity is not about visual refinement or aesthetics. It can be purposely ugly, like the London Olympics logo. What is important is that it is done seriously.

In theory it could work out as well as Coca-Cola's unprofessional logo. But looking at it, I dont think so - it doesn't have enough character. It's definitely the best of the bunch shown, but that makes me wonder why they showed all the others. (I'm no expert, and I have disliked logos from multi-million-dollar graphic design companies.)

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Polish letters

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2013, 07:20 PM »

^AFAIK unicode would require a complete rewrite - this below is a clear 'no' at any rate - sorry

So if you need to be able to represent those characters, i'm afraid you will have to find another application other than FARR.  Sorry

-mouser (September 01, 2013, 06:43 PM)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Early Beta Release: v4.6.4 Beta - Sep 11, 2013

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2013, 03:40 PM »

Should be enabled by default.

Help -> About should show version 4.6.2.
if not, download again.

-mouser (September 06, 2013, 03:27 PM)

either I was too quick on the draw earlier - or you too slow
Now showing 4.6.2 here (no change in the minimise aspect FWIW)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Early Beta Release: v4.6.4 Beta - Sep 11, 2013

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2013, 03:21 PM »

When you switch to object mode to add an object, the bottom panel which normally shows filename and memo now looks like this:
[...]
The point of this is to solve the problem where new users click on the arrow toolbar button or something similar, and then find themselves in object editing mode with no idea how to get out of it.

What do you think of this? Any suggestions for additional/modified text to display there for beginners?  Should I color it differently so it will really stand out?

-mouser (September 06, 2013, 12:10 PM)

I've always found the obect modes confusing, so think this is a good idea
The only thing is - it isn't showing here. Should it be on by default? I dont see any related settings on the relevant tab.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SUGGESTION: Maximum Screen Size

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2013, 02:43 PM »

4. Remember than you can right-click and drag the image to pan it -- you don't have to use scrollbars (this is the biggest tip!)

-mouser (August 29, 2013, 09:53 AM)

this. I dont know how long this has been hidden in SC but boy am I happy to find out about it
I've been cursing those scrollbars for years now

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Poor man's 'gallery view' in Screenshot Capture

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2013, 02:40 PM »

That is very helpful (I didnt know it) thanks Chris

I wonder if having a dedicated thumbnail viewing mode might also be useful..

-mouser (September 06, 2013, 02:04 PM)

I'm interested - but I'm not sure what you mean there.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: After each capturing main window is appears despite "stay minimized" is chosen

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2013, 02:20 PM »

It works here (win xp) but probably not be worth diving too deep into this for now

-mouser (September 06, 2013, 12:37 PM)

that's fine, thanks for the go at it!

But hopefully the more serious problem found by Barvetal, where red box capture mode would even wake up SC from being minimized in tray, is now fixed.

-mouser (September 06, 2013, 12:37 PM)

sounds like it is (works fine here too)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: After each capturing main window is appears despite "stay minimized" is chosen

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2013, 11:20 AM »

Can you clarify to me the situation and how you are triggering capture, etc.

-mouser (September 06, 2013, 10:35 AM)

I opened the main SC window. move two different apps in front of it.**

I then tried:

• full screen capture (PrtScr key)
• active window capture via the quick-capture-bar

in both cases SC jumps to the foreground.

** I took screenshots of Firefox and Cinta notes note windows. (Tried with both 'normal' and maximised windows.)


EDIT// is it working there mouser? if so how? Have you updated the beta since you announced it earlier today? my SC exe is dated 2013-09-05 23:03

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Screenshot Captor / Re: After each capturing main window is appears despite "stay minimized" is chosen

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2013, 09:25 AM »

no worries mouser!

what should happen now though is if there was another program that was focused and in front of SC, then SC should appear behind it after the capture in that case, though it will jump in front of others.

-mouser (September 06, 2013, 09:07 AM)

no,
the SC window jumps to the very front

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General Software Discussion / Re: Discussion about special ways to protect a PDF

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2013, 08:58 AM »

could (easily) be that the pdf's font not is on your pc

-Curt (September 06, 2013, 08:21 AM)

How can I solve that ?
 

-Contro (September 06, 2013, 08:52 AM)

can you link to the PDF, or send it to someone else per email - to check it?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: After each capturing main window is appears despite "stay minimized" is chosen

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2013, 04:52 AM »

I'm not sure if you're able to include in the fix the come-to-front behaviour of the main window,
as you describe -

It only happens if the Screenshot Captor is actually on the screen (not in the tray), right?
That is, SC may not be in the foreground, but it's not minimized right?

-mouser (September 04, 2013, 08:05 AM)

-tomos (September 04, 2013, 10:40 AM)

this still happening (not complaining! - just stating for the record in case you thought it fixed)
i.e.

• Setting "After Capture: Save but keep main window minimised" is selected.
• SC window open in the background.
• I take screenshot and SC window jumps to foreground (the screenshot is fine)

(install version; Win7 64bit)

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Change (sub) folder(s) date based on newest/oldest file in the folder

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2013, 04:39 AM »

^Great job, thanks

I linked to app and instructions in the dopus thread: Configuring Directory Opus for Fun and Profit

Minor correction to the text dcwul62 (with apologies for pestering you!):

7. Enter title: Adjust Timestamp (A),
click on Drop down menu (B)
select "Run an Opus function (not supported in Explorer), (C)
click on "OK" (D)

B/C are incorrect (both are B there - C is actually missing). It should read:

7. Enter title: Adjust Timestamp (A),
click on Drop down menu & select "Run an Opus function (not supported in Explorer), (B)
click on Commands and select Adjust Timestamp (C)
click on "OK" (D)