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Ulf Selve

10-22-2003, 01:50 AM

It should be possible to print to the clipboard the same way as in OSD Drafting (ME10).
It is an convenient and easy way to get a view/drawing into another Windows application.

May Kung

10-22-2003, 10:18 AM

Can't you already do this? I copy from Annotation to the Clipboard regularly. The only tedious part is converting everything to white so when it's copied, it comes out in black (love macros for this).

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you're looking for?

John Scheffel

10-22-2003, 01:32 PM

Drafting includes Print option to print to the clipboard. This has the advantage of using the current print settings for line color and thickness so that the result looks like a hardcopy or PDF print. Very quick and easy compared to modifying all the lines for Copy/Paste. As far as I know, Annotation can't do this.

May Kung

10-23-2003, 08:41 AM

Ah. I do not use Drafting, so I was not aware of that option. Yes, I agree that would be quite useful. Using a macro is a bit clunkier for Copy/Paste than if it just behaved as you described.

Michael Kahle

11-03-2004, 01:26 AM

In 13.00 Annotator can plot to clipboard as well.

Also many other things like plotting to pdf, selecting plotters programmatically, etc...