Can we increase the size? I have some coupons that are .PDF that are bigger than 204800k. Even after zipping them they are still too large. What do you suggest? I know I'm computer illiterate when it comes to these things.... meanwhile, you all are probably going to get all technical on me and tell me how to make the file smaller, LOL. :)

Display the object on your screen,
Press the 'Print Screen" button on your keyboard
This will take a snapshot of your screen.
Open Paintbrush and under Edit select paste.
Your image will now be displayed.
Using the bottom and right scroll bars, move the image to the middle of the screen, to center your image on the page.
Under the "edit" button on the toobar. is a select button, it's a dash-lined box.
Position your cursor at the coner of your image.
Click your left mouse button and hold it down and drag the box around the area you want copy it.
If you don't like the area marked, click anywhere on the image and the box will disapper and you can try it again.
Under the Edit select copy.
Then under Edit select Undo, this will clear the screen.
Move the screen so you can see the bottom rightcorner of the white area.
Select the corner and make the whilte box very small by moving it to the upper left corner.
Under Edit, secelct Paste, your image will appear.
The select 'Save As' and select jpg file format.

If these instructions seamed too basic, I am sorry, put wanted to make sure the steps were easy to follow.

i DLed something called Snag It from a web search, it is a pretty easy program to use and will take a capture image of whatever is displayed on the screen. There is a trial version of it that works well.

i went ahead and found the website for you.

http://www.techsmith.com/download/snagitdefault.asp

I love Snag It, the video was a lot of help to me. I would use it to demo how to do certain functions and I could e-mail it or put on a serve and the cust could pull it from there.
I used it to create ref. mans., awesome software.

Originally posted by Ambah
Can we increase the size? I have some coupons that are .PDF that are bigger than 204800k. Even after zipping them they are still too large. What do you suggest? I know I'm computer illiterate when it comes to these things.... meanwhile, you all are probably going to get all technical on me and tell me how to make the file smaller, LOL. :)

204MB?! That must've been a mistake. ;) here's something for reference...

1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte
1000 kilobytes = 1 megabyte
1000 megabytes = 1 gigabyte
1000 gigabytes = 1 terrabyte

Yeah, you might want to shrink it down and take a screenshot and paste it in paint. PDFs are ugly.

Oh, and there's absolutely no need for a screenshot taking program. Just use the PrintScrn button to copy the screenshot to the clipboard (i.e., do what Scullygirl first said)

Actually it should be as follows:

1,024 bytes = 1 kilobyte
1,024 kilobytes = 1 megabyte
1,024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte
1,024 gigabytes = terabyte

Also note the following:

8 bits = 1 byte

Therefore:

1,024 bits = 1 kilobit
1,024 bits = 128 bytes

So you need to watch out because it is very common for people to use KiloBITS rather than kilobytes when referring to speed and size.

A perfect example of this is networking connections. Those amazingly speedy 56k modems, in reality are 56 kilobits which when converted to kilobytes is only 7 kilobytes and in reality allot slower when considering FCC regulations on data transfer. Same goes with T1 (which stands for Transfers at 1.5Mbit per/second) and the other standards. Big industry seems to make money on BIG numbers, thus BITS make their products look more impressive than BYTES ;)

In Ambah's case I'd assume she was in fact referring to kilobits and not kilobytes. Thus her figure of 204,800 Kilobits would be 25,600 KiloBytes OR a nice even 25 MegaBytes. Makes more sense that way anyways.

It is common to see the following used:

1k = 1 Kilobit
1K = 1 KiloByte
1Kb = 1 Kilobit
1KB = 1 KiloByte

Same would also go for any other unit of measurement (ie Mb and MB).


Hope this makes some sense :)

PS: keaaa, kill the sig, referrals aren't fun.

Uncertain now if it was a k or K... I apologize for not paying more attention to detail when posting this issue.

Originally posted by snipe
Actually it should be as follows:

1,024 bytes = 1 kilobyte
1,024 kilobytes = 1 megabyte
1,024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte
1,024 gigabytes = terabyte

Also note the following:

8 bits = 1 byte

Therefore:

1,024 bits = 1 kilobit
1,024 bits = 128 bytes

So you need to watch out because it is very common for people to use KiloBITS rather than kilobytes when referring to speed and size.

A perfect example of this is networking connections. Those amazingly speedy 56k modems, in reality are 56 kilobits which when converted to kilobytes is only 7 kilobytes and in reality allot slower when considering FCC regulations on data transfer. Same goes with T1 (which stands for Transfers at 1.5Mbit per/second) and the other standards. Big industry seems to make money on BIG numbers, thus BITS make their products look more impressive than BYTES ;)

In Ambah's case I'd assume she was in fact referring to kilobits and not kilobytes. Thus her figure of 204,800 Kilobits would be 25,600 KiloBytes OR a nice even 25 MegaBytes. Makes more sense that way anyways.

It is common to see the following used:

1k = 1 Kilobit
1K = 1 KiloByte
1Kb = 1 Kilobit
1KB = 1 KiloByte

Same would also go for any other unit of measurement (ie Mb and MB).


Hope this makes some sense :)

PS: keaaa, kill the sig, referrals aren't fun.

don't know what we do without you. :yummy: