How do I turn an article of text into bitmap?

I suggest following Applett [free code issued for 6months or on donation free all SW on the site

or try Irfanview [link at the end of my post

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Screenshot Captor

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A free & verstyle Editor for PIX & player for Multimedia:

IrfanView a verstile PIX & Media player & converter http://www.irfanview.com/

Download Installer + Plug-ins

These are the file formats/extensions supported by the current version of IrfanView:

AIF¹, ANI, AU¹, AVI, AWD, B3D, BMP, CAM, CLP, CPT, CRW/CR2, CUR, DAT¹, DCM/ACR, DCX, DDS, DIB, DJVU, DLL/EXE, DXF/DWG/HPGL/CGM/SVG, ECW, EMF, EPS/PS/PDF, FITS, FLI/FLC², FPX, FSH, G3, GIF, HDR, ICL, ICO, IFF/LBM, IMG, JP2, JPG/JPEG, JPM, KDC, LDF, LWF, Mac PICT², MED, MID, MNG/JNG, MOV¹², MP3, MPG/MPEG¹, MrSID, NLM/NOL/NGG/NSL/OTB/GSM, OGG, PBM, PCX, PDF, PGM, PIC, PhotoCD, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, PVR, QTIF², RAS/SUN, RealAudio, RAW, RLE, RMI, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, MrSID, SWF, SND¹, TGA, TIF/TIFF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAL, WAV, WBMP, WMF, WMA, WMV, XBM, XPM, (DNG, EEF, NEF, ORF, RAF, MRW, DCR, PEF, SRF, X3F).


¹ Microsoft's Media Player program is required for these formats.
² Apple's QuickTime program is required for these formats.

Note: Many of these formats are supported through PlugIns, check the table below and read the file "i_plugins.txt" for more infos.

PlugIns Download: http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm

Learn yourself how many ways you have to use it & convert your PIX to the smallest size & the formats use the least file-size like .jpg more ...
Enjoy

Thanks Haajee, got both your posts into consideration and try it soon. Hemmo

SnagIt works really well. It's not free (approx. $40.00 US) but once you try it, you'll wonder how you lived without it. Google 'TechSmith' or 'SnagIt'.

Just display the text on your screen, then hit the PrintScreen button in the upper right section of your keyboard. The screen image is now on the clipboard. Open Paint in the Start\Accessories menu, then click Edit in the menu at the top. Click Paste and the image will be pasted into the Paint program. If the image is too large, you can resize it and seam it together using tools in Paint. Most other graphics programs will do the same thing.

You could try creating a PDF from the document, and then using acrobat, save it as a image. Most PDF writers allow you to set up custom paper sizes so you could set it up to all fit on one page giving you the single image that you need.

Try 'print'ing the document to "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer" and select TIF format (or any other suitable format) as output format. And, then print it.

If required, you can convert the TIFF image to BMP format later. Ofcourse, TIFF images do not generally provide good resolution.

HTH.

Govinda Padaki

1. Scan it.

2. Save the scan as a .bmp file

It is that simple.

Scan the document in as a jpeg, open it in Micro Soft paint and save it as a bit map. Open the bit map with the program you're using for your presentation and you should be there.

Billy Joe Ray Bob

Have you tried to print it out and then scan it back in?

Scanning should work well

You can use power-point with text box in each slide and save-as the presentation as "device independant bitmap".

I tried this for 200 slides in a moive-maker project, where some local fonts are not recognized by movie-maker.

Unless you are dealing with biblical text, or alike, all Hebrew texts can be written without punctuations. Doing it without it, shouldn't be a problem.

Wangito

He wants a Picture file, Just copy the thing into a buffer, paste it into Paint.

Then convert the *.BMP file into a *.JPG file.

A Child could do it.

oh, neednt convert.

becasuse .bmp and .jpg are all belong to bitmap file

only but one is not compressed and later is compressed.

right?

> He wants a Picture file, Just copy the thing into a buffer, paste it into Paint.

Which buffer are you talking about? Is it the clipboard? Text Clipboards will hold only the text part of it (characters. And hence, limited by char-sets). Image clipboards will hold image as selected however the content is limited by what could be seen on the screen. Image clipboards cannot hold more than what can be displayed in one screen. So, this solution will not work when the display spans multiple screens.

A thorough solution will be to print into a TIFF / similar file.

Regards, Govinda Padaki

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oh, neednt convert.
becasuse .bmp and .jpg are all belong to bitmap file only but one is not compressed and later is compressed. right?

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Of course it is correct, but if you care about the size of the file .jpg has almost 1/5th of .bmp while keeps all the resolution of picture as it is jiont-photographers-group's accepted format.
This is about the .JPGs converted from other formats.

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I add just for information of Forum & nonts on your post
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The original file from a camera has much more in it which .bmp hanot:
1. EXIF information you can see below as an example:
2. IPTC info you can write in many Tabs & columns including CopyRight etc
3. In "Comments" window a lot can be written


EXIF information
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ImageDescription -
Make - SONY
Model - DSC-F828
Orientation - Top left
XResolution - 72
YResolution - 72
ResolutionUnit - Inch
DateTime - 2006:04:22 16:32:39
YCbCrPositioning - Co-Sited
ExifOffset - 258
ExposureTime - 1/60 seconds
FNumber - 2.00
ExposureProgram - Normal program
ISOSpeedRatings - 64
ExifVersion - 0220
DateTimeOriginal - 2006:04:22 16:32:39
DateTimeDigitized - 2006:04:22 16:32:39
ComponentsConfiguration - YCbCr
CompressedBitsPerPixel - 8 (bits/pixel)
ExposureBiasValue - 0.00
MaxApertureValue - F 2.04
MeteringMode - Multi-segment
LightSource - Auto
Flash - Flash fired, compulsory flash mode, red-eye reduction mode, return light detected
FocalLength - 8.70 mm
FlashPixVersion - 0100
ColorSpace - sRGB
ExifImageWidth - 1280
ExifImageHeight - 960
InteroperabilityOffset - 2278
FileSource - DSC - Digital still camera
SceneType - A directly photographed image
CustomRendered - Normal process
ExposureMode - Auto
White Balance - Auto
SceneCaptureType - Standard
Contrast - Normal
Saturation - Normal
Sharpness - Normal

Maker Note (Vendor): -

Thumbnail: -
Compression - 6 (JPG)
Make - SONY
Model - DSC-F828
Orientation - Top left
XResolution - 72
YResolution - 72
ResolutionUnit - Inch
DateTime - 2006:04:22 16:32:39
JpegIFOffset - 2486
JpegIFByteCount - 19926

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Haajee,

- Just how many characters can you add in the "comments" section of this EXIF meta-file, or is it dependant on the over-all size of the picture?

- How do you utilise this and through which user-interface?

- Is it limited to Sony PC user-interface?

Regards.

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- Just how many characters can you add in the "comments" section of this EXIF meta-file, or is it dependant on the over-all size of the picture?

- How do you utilise this and through which user-interface?

- Is it limited to Sony PC user-interface?

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-A reasonably good space

-I just enter the occassion & family data etc + the Name(s) of all pictured & some thing special I like

- Almost all the popular Cameras use EXIF info.

There are a few Readers for it on web.

Google "EXIF" .

But the IrfanViewer in my posts is a verstyle tool for PIX & Multimedia.

It has built-in EXIF for .jpg & .gif [from cameras & other snap-appletts only]

Sorry I forgot to say the text you enter increases the size of Picture.

By deleteing it size is decreased

Thanks.