Is there any way to get Corel Photo-Paint 7 to use its clipboard to bring up the latest screenshot using just the Print Screen button on the keyboard rather than illegible text of something that I apparently copied earlier before? I had somehow been able to do it for years on my old HP PC (Windows 7), but ever since I got a new Dell PC (Windows 10) on June 21st, whenever I just hit the Print Screen on my keyboard to make a screenshot, all I get on my clipboard in CPP7 is some illegible text rather than the latest screenshot (image). This has been maddeningly frustrating for me, so someone, anyone PLEASE HELP - I would appreciate it tremendously. THANKS very much.
Alt + Print Screen for the app window.
Don't know how anyone can live without a clipboard manager. I'm using Ditto but there are others that are not free with perhaps more features.
At least then you can copy copy copy > paste and have both a clipboard history and see what is in that mysterious place.
Absolutely essential as far as I'm concerned. It's been developed over 10 years so it is very stable.
ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
You can add further types of support. Just copy, in this case from Draw and add those types. Not that this is necessary but you can do it.
I have had little luck with open source. GIMP is on my system but rarely used. Open source I'vevtried has been more trouble than it was worth.
You are using open source software right now. It's called "the internet".
I have said with GIMP wait for version 3 currently 2.99 beta. They have had a lot they need to recode for a new plugin system... "The focus of this version is to complete the GTK+3 port".
You have to view the roadmap and understand what that means and why.
https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap
What you get is a known roadmap and a bug tracking system that engages with the developers. We can only wish for that here.
So the question I would ask is "what is the limit of development in an image editor"?
It isn't infinity or is it?
There is a point where open source software reaches a level that 99% of needs are meet.
I'm using LibraOffice, Thunderbird Email, Firefox (prebeta), Ditto, OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) VLC player, Audacity... these tools meet needs just fine.
DaVinci Resolve the free version only lacks a few things I'd like, noise reduction being the main one.
Then Corel, DXO, Luminar AI, VueScan
It's possibly a mistake not to be using Photoshop and Dreamweaver. It's not a great call to not be using Adobe products if you want an "employee" job in Australia. Or MS Office for that matter. Any job advert quotes those as "essential". It's a bit less "Mac" than it was 10 years ago. But perhaps even more Adobe.
I sense that Corel specifically CGS having "secrets" works more against them than being open and transparent. The sorts of secrets CGS has compared to the advantages of being open don't really do much to deal with the real issues of professional market perception. The professional market want to know where you are going and what the current issues are. CGS has a big problem, they are not perceived (here at least) as "industry standard". They need a radical change in openness to address that (as well as other things). Features are not the issue.
CorelDRAW also includes open source software, such as GhostScript and the SVG file format from Inkscape.
That's just the obvious. Python is OS too, I think there are bits written in that from memory. Virtually everything is written to include this and that library of code.
I'm thinking Windows 11. Should we get a group of us together and write a combined blog post?It's a messy upgrade on old hardware. Either you have to hack things, which I personally hate doing as it is all too easy to forget what hacks were used or for many they need to add in a TPM board, I know I do or update the whole computer.
Linus has done a video on the hack methods.
https://youtu.be/NivpAiuh-s0
My board need a TPM header key
https://www.gigabyte.com/au/Motherboard/GC-TPM20#ov
It's near 1/2 the price of a new motherboard
https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=GC-TPM2.0&_sacat=0