Word: How to print reverse image (of white on black)?

[larryww]

This regards PrintScreens of mainframe sessions which are the lovely green-on-black , pasted in .DOCs. My desperatation tactic has been futzing around with print properties - gruesome and flawed; besides which, that varies by printer and printer driver, right?

I hope someone knows a built-into-the-product solution. If I have to go that route, I am macro fluent, though I'd prefer not to. TIA

 

[Dreamboat]

Larry:

I'm not sure I understand the problem. And you didn't tell us what version.

However, Word does have lightening available on images.

Are you trying to make the background black and print it that way? What's your final product? On-screen, printed, what?

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[Hasit]

If I take what you have written along with the title of your message, then what you may need to do is paste the screen into a graphics package, reverse the image (painshop pro allows this in one click), copy and then paste it into Word.

Otherwise, I echo Dreamboat's comment.

 

[larryww]

Sorry, I didn't think that "reverse image" was such a nebulous concept.

How about: I want to print the photographic negative of the printscreen-pasted-image in the .DOC. I want Don King to look like Mother Theresa, with his white tie appearing black.

Lightening the image and modifying it is a gruesome approach. I hoped that there would be a built-in solution. However, if PaintShop Pro is what I have to do, thanks for supplying that info.

 

[larryww]

P.S. Version doesn't matter. If there is a solution for any version, it'd be wonderful to hear it.

 

[Dreamboat]

Agreed. You will not be able to accomplish that without a graphics program. And Word is not one such animal. Loved the Don King analogy!

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[larryww]

Ok, thanks. That's a shame, since just highlighting an object (or even text) flips its colors; I just can't print it.

Wait - that's it! I just select it in Word, and "re-snap the picture" with printscreen. Yep, seems to work perfectly.

Hokey, but quicker and easier than taking it to another app. (which I don't have anyway LOL). (There's not even a catch of having to resize the window to the image - the extra surrounding space is white anyway, so it's okay, albeit with an extra WFW border.)