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Posting a screenshot image to the My Opera forums

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To make a screenshot, you should press the PrintScreen key on your keyboard. This captures an image of your entire screen onto the clipboard. Alternatively, press Alt+PrintScreen to capture a snapshot of only the active application or dialog window. Then you can open your favorite image editor and paste the image in it. I use IrfanView, which is a free and excellent image-processing tool; but even Microsoft Paint would suffice.

In the pasted image, you can use the image tool's cut / crop / select / copy-paste utilities to remove unwanted parts of the image. Then save it in a nice compressed format such as png or jpg. Make sure that the resulting image is less than 100kB in size, that is the upper limit for uploading them onto the forums here. You might need to resize it (scale it to be smaller) and/or change its color depth to make it fit 100kB.

Once you have the image ready, use the 'Post reply' button on the thread page in the forum to add a post in an existing thread. Find the 'Attach file' section near the bottom of the text box. There is an entry-field to upload attachments -- specify the path to the image there. Once you upload the file, a preview image along will show up along with an Attach button. Click on the button to add the image to your post as an attachment.

Note that if you preview your post, you might need to specify the image attachment again. Once you submit, your post with the image will be available in the thread.

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Comments

jp10558 28. October 2004, 18:53

mmm, Just pressing printscreen button works fine for me...

orinoco 28. October 2004, 18:53

In windows PrintScreen copies the entire screen to the clipboard, alt+PrintScreen only copies the active window

rblythe 28. October 2004, 18:53

rblythe 28. October 2004, 18:53

I want to just print a web page and have it print the way it is displayed. I don't think that messing about with editors and the like is a cost effective use of anyones time, do you?

If it can be don in IE6 then why is it such a big deal in Opera?

Rob

neeraj_deshmukh 28. October 2004, 18:53

IE6 gets a lot of mileage from being integrated into the operating system. Other browsers do not have that luxury.

Finally, printing a whole web page can be done very well in Opera, like any other browser. What Opera does not support is copying page selection with formatting -- the formatting data is not copied to clipboard (and therefore printing a page selection will not print it like it shows on screen).

AyushJ 4. May 2007, 20:41

neeraj, there are only two shortcuts in Windows XP-
Printscreen : Everything -|- Alt+Printscreen : Active Window/Dialog

Type the following in start-run if you are running windows:
hh ms-its:C:\WINDOWS\Help\common.chm::/common_trans_wind_screen.htm

neeraj_deshmukh 4. May 2007, 22:16

[AyushJ] Thanks for the correction. I have updated the post accordingly.

AyushJ 4. May 2007, 22:24

:happy:
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