WinXP Print screen- Anyway to automatically paste as a .jpg instead of a .bmp?

[JEDI]

When I take screen shots using the Print Screen button on my keyboard, the pic is HUGE in size when i do a paste.

anyway i can automatically paste as a .jpg?

thx

 

[Canterwood]

Don't think you can paste as a jpeg, but you can save the image as a jpeg.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: JEDI
When I take screen shots using the Print Screen button on my keyboard, the pic is HUGE in size when i do a paste.
anyway i can automatically paste as a .jpg?
thx

Images are always huge in memory since they are uncompressed so they can be drawn. I think your question is about saving the image, and that is up to the application you paste it into.

Bill

 

[JEDI]

yeah, i can save the image as a jpeg then copy/paste the jpeg.

but i wanted to try to skip that step by doing a print screen and have a program automatically covert it as a jpg in memory so when i do a ctrl-v to paste, it's in jpg format.

Does that exist?

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Don't know if anything like that is available, but there are a couple of programs that, when used together, could simplify things.

Fraps does more than benchmarking your fps: "Screen Capture Software - Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There's no need to paste into a paint program every time you want to capture the screen. Your screen captures are also automatically named and timestamped."

Irfanview can do batch conversions from one format to another.

They are both free (Fraps 1.9d is free, 2.xx is feature-restricted shareware).


EDIT>> The above recommendation is of course, for Windows. If using Linux, KDE has a built-in utility to do just what you are asking: ksnapshot.

 

[zephyrprime]

It doesn't exist and even if it may still take as much memory. Windows can display jpg onto surfaces directly but it may still keep an uncompressed copy in memory which is the right thing to do since not doing so would be slow.