[femm] Re: View plots

[Dave Squires <djsquires@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks David,
It is much appreciated. I know how to do this on a
Unix Solaris system, but haven't done it with windows
before.

Thanks again,
Dave Squires

David Meeker wrote:

> Dave Squires wrote:
>
> > Does anybody on this list know if there is a way
> > to get .gif files generated from FEMMVIEW?
> > I would like the ability to create archive views for
> > web based posting and archiving. Right now the only
> > method I can see is to plot to a laser printer and then
> > take a picture with a digital camera then convert to
> > .gif format after that. This would be a tedious process
> > and not give original quality results.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave Squires
>
> There are several ways that you get .gif files of femmview output.
>
> First, you could choose Edit | Copy off of the main menu of femmview. This
> command copies everything that is being currently displayed to the clipboard
> as a windows metafile. Then fire up Microsoft Paint (the paint program that
> comes with windows). In Paint, choose Edit | Paste off of the main menu.
> It will then render the metafile as a bitmap, which you can save, and
> convert to gif or jpeg or whatever.
>
> Instead of pasting into Paint, you could paste the metafile into Word. If
> you then save your document as html, all of the graphics get saved as gif
> files.
>
> Lastly, you could use the brute-force method, which is screen capture.
> Several freely available programs will do screen captures:
> QV 2.5: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/graphics/qv25.zip
> Capture: ftp://users.aol.com/KISSSeries/capture.zip
>
> Dave.
>
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