save as bmp, jpg, png, tiff with marquee-tool

[alemanda]

Is it possible to save part of the archicad workspace (plan, section, worksheet, etc.) as bitmap (bmp, jpg, png, tiff) using the marquee tool? I mean only the area inside the marquee-tool?

[Eduardo Rolon]

Not idea is its possible but what I usually do is print to PDF the selected marquee area, for PNGs I usually take a screen shot.

[Anonymous]

I know of a way, but it requires an additional step. If you have a PDF printer installed which can save to PNG, just use that. If not, you can get PDFCreator for free.

Select with marquee tool, go to file > print. Choose PDFCreator as your printer and print. Once the PDFCreator dialog box comes up, choose "PNG" under "profile" and click save. Enter filename and location and you're done.

note: to make sure you get good resolution PNGs, use large paper size, for some reason the dpi option isn't working on my machine. you can get really high resolution PNGs, something the print-screen just can't match. You can use this method to get a PNG from any program which has the ability to print.

[Anonymous]

Oops, forgot to mention the formats you can save to with PDFCreator.

[alemanda]

Thanks. Very useful!

[Barry Kelly]

I would just use one of the many screen capture programs.

There is also a Registry key (for Windows machines - there will be something similar on a Mac) that will place whatever you copy into the windows clipboard.

See this post...

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=17384

It won't save it as a BMP or JPG but will allow you to paste the image anywhere you want - i.e. in an e-mails or Word document.

Barry.