Snipping tool

[paulsstuff]

I use the snipping tool in windows 7 to copy things from the screen then I paste the image from the clipboard to a new windows word document. The document looks good on the screen and it looks good in the print preview screen but when I print it the bottom portion and the right edge of the image are missing. Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks, Paul

 

[BisVal]

I think it is a problem with printer settings - try to fit the image on the printing sheet.

 

[paulsstuff]

I tried that as you suggested but it didn't change things. I kept messing around and I discovered that if I would rotate the image, even just a little, then it would print the full image. It looks a little strange but it works. I have know idea why this would make a difference in the way it prints.

 

[Bertison]

Hi paulsstuff
I use snipping tool a lot, and I found this problem too. In my case, I looked ta the way it looks onscreen. If it appears to be wider than longer, I printed in Landscape. If not, Portrait. I lost parts of images before I found that.

Then I found a setting in my printer's software that gave me "Auto Portrait/Landscape" and I use that when printing from a snipping Capture. It is also useful to copy the Capture image into Paint, paste and edit in your image software.

 

[TechnoMage2016]

A 'Snipping Tool' doesn't sound like anything I'd ever want to use.

For many years now, I've used a little program from France, called "Photo Filtre" for all my screen saves and photo editing. The program is FREE and with a shortcut to it in the Taskbar, it's very easy to use.

When I want to do a screen-capture for instance, I just make sure my screen is arranged the way I want it and then I press the "Print Screen" key, which copies the entire screen (minus the cursor) to the Clip Board.
Then I click the Photo Filtre icon in the task bar and right click in the PF screen and then click "Paste as a new Image", and there is my desktop image in PF, where I can resize it, add contrast if needed, add text if required and finally save the image or print it out.
I always get the images 100% like they were on the monitor screen.

So maybe you can tell, I'm totally sold on the FREE program "Photo Filtre" (yes it's spelled correctly...It's French! )

Cheers Mates!
TechnoMage

 

[mitchell65]

But the Snipping Tool is for an entirely different purpose than Photo Filtre. It is perfect for the screenshots on this Forum for instance and it is possible to get a shot of open Context Menus with the Snipping Tool!

 

[bigmck]

But the Snipping Tool is for an entirely different purpose than Photo Filtre. It is perfect for the screenshots on this Forum for instance and it is possible to get a shot of open Context Menus with the Snipping Tool!

I agree Mitchell65. It doesn't sound like he is familiar with Snipping Tool. It is a good feature.

 

[Bertison]

Snipping Tool

Of course it's different, what TechnoMagetalks about is an Image Editor or photo editor.

The Snipping Tool is a FREE Windows 7 tool, perhaps TechnoMage does not know how to access and use it. I also have it in my taskbar, I use it so often.

And we can all use Print Screen -> Clipboard and copy the result to any image or photo programme we have.

And yes, some of us can also read, write and speak French.

 

[bigmck]

Of course it's different, what TechnoMagetalks about is an Image Editor or photo editor.

The Snipping Tool is a FREE Windows 7 tool, perhaps TechnoMage does not know how to access and use it. I also have it in my taskbar, I use it so often.

And we can all use Print Screen -> Clipboard and copy the result to any image or photo programme we have.

And yes, some of us can also read, write and speak French.

Gee, that is a strange response? We, They, Us, French.....................?

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Of course it's different, what TechnoMagetalks about is an Image Editor or photo editor.

The Snipping Tool is a FREE Windows 7 tool, perhaps TechnoMage does not know how to access and use it. I also have it in my taskbar, I use it so often.

And we can all use Print Screen -> Clipboard and copy the result to any image or photo programme we have.

And yes, some of us can also read, write and speak French.

Gee, that is a strange response? We, They, Us, French.....................?

I would speak "French" but Mama told me not to use those words.

 

[bigmck]

Of course it's different, what TechnoMagetalks about is an Image Editor or photo editor.

The Snipping Tool is a FREE Windows 7 tool, perhaps TechnoMage does not know how to access and use it. I also have it in my taskbar, I use it so often.

And we can all use Print Screen -> Clipboard and copy the result to any image or photo programme we have.

And yes, some of us can also read, write and speak French.

Gee, that is a strange response? We, They, Us, French.....................?

I would speak "French" but Mama told me not to use those words.

It is perfectly fine to do that if you preface the words with "Pardon my French".

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Gee, that is a strange response? We, They, Us, French.....................?

I would speak "French" but Mama told me not to use those words.

It is perfectly fine to do that if you preface the words with "Pardon my French".

Mama didn't think so.

 

[cowdude]

I've used snipping tool since it was added to windows. I has to take some of my college courses online and send in images of certain items. It works great as a study tool to capture things and edit them. I love it and hope MS doesn't get rid of it.

 

[paulsstuff]

Reply

Hi paulsstuff
I use snipping tool a lot, and I found this problem too. In my case, I looked ta the way it looks onscreen. If it appears to be wider than longer, I printed in Landscape. If not, Portrait. I lost parts of images before I found that.

Then I found a setting in my printer's software that gave me "Auto Portrait/Landscape" and I use that when printing from a snipping Capture. It is also useful to copy the Capture image into Paint, paste and edit in your image software.

Hi Bertison,

Thanks for your input.

I tried what you suggested but it didn't work for me. Maybe it's my printer or maybe it's Microsoft Word. I have tried everything but the only thing that works for me is to rotate the image slightly before I print it. It looks weird but what else can I do?

Thanks, Paul

 

[mitchell65]

Paul
Why are you pasting the snippet to MS Word. Word is as you know a "Word" processor. Try pasting the snippet to Paint or some other image editor or viewer. Irfanview is a good one and free to boot!
How about saving one of you snippets to a PNG file, posting it here on the Forum then we can see if we have the same problem?

 

[paulsstuff]

Paul
Why are you pasting the snippet to MS Word. Word is as you know a "Word" processor. Try pasting the snippet to Paint or some other image editor or viewer. Irfanview is a good one and free to boot!
How about saving one of you snippets to a PNG file, posting it here on the Forum then we can see if we have the same problem?

It works fine in Paint. I was just hoping to use Word. I'll try Irfanview. Maybe I'll like that one.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Paul
Why are you pasting the snippet to MS Word. Word is as you know a "Word" processor. Try pasting the snippet to Paint or some other image editor or viewer. Irfanview is a good one and free to boot!
How about saving one of you snippets to a PNG file, posting it here on the Forum then we can see if we have the same problem?

I often put together documents in Word with text I create interspersed with "snips" pasted in directly from Win 7's Snipping Tool. It would be a pain in my ample asset to have to use an intermediary step, such as Paint, etc., especially since pasting directly from the tool is so much faster and easier.

MS Word 2010 (the version I use), as well as its predecessor, 2007 (and, to a lesser degree, 2003) has surprisingly good basic image editing tools as long as one only needs the basics: cropping, relocating the image, resizing the image that appears in the document (the amount of storage space needed by the image doesn't change, however; a 400KB image still takes up 400KB after cropping it in half but that also allows one to restore the cropped portion of the image down the road), etc.

I tried duplicating the OP's problem with images taken by Win 7's Snipping Tool and pasted into Word docs, both from the clipboard when the "snip" was made without saving it and from a saved "snipped" image, usually .jpg, and they stayed stable when document was printed out. Mayhap I misunderstood exactly what it is the OP is doing?

Edit: I just remembered I once printed a photo on regular letter sized paper a while back just to see how well my printer reproduced colors (I still have the printout hanging up in my room to see if the colors fade any over time). The quick and dirty way was to paste the .jpg into Word (since my camera was set for wide screen resolution, I pasted the photo into the Word doc (no text) with the page set to landscape. There was no cropping on the printout.