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Subject: Re: Pasting Diagrams Black on Bottom into Word Processor

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 07:58:38 01/10/03

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On January 10, 2003 at 09:16:50, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On January 09, 2003 at 21:09:40, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>On January 09, 2003 at 21:02:40, Bob Durrett wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I am using CB8 and Fritz 8 but could use other chess software if it would not
>>>work with Chessbase products.
>>>
>>>I wish to print six diagrams on a page.  It works fine as long as all positions
>>>are to be white on the bottom.  But in positions where I played Black and it was
>>>my move, I would like to copy the position to Microsoft Word as a flipped
>>>diagram.
>>>
>>>Does anybody know how to do that?
>>>
>>>Bob D.
>>
>>File -> Print -> Page setup -> Print Diagram tab -> check Flipped
>>
>>Michael
>
>I already tried that.  It doesn't work.
>
>The problem is that "copy diagram" seems unaffected by printer setup and page
>setup settings in CB8. I was successful in copying six diagrams from CB8 to
>Microsoft Word.  By playing with the margin settings in the word processor, I
>got all six diagrams to be located in a very attractive arrangement on a page.
>It was actually beautiful.  But playing with the CB8 settings you described
>above had no affect on the diagrams.  They always appear White on the bottom.
>Square numbers are always given, too, and I would like to get rid of them.  It
>would also be nice to have the black dot beside the diagram showing side to
>move.  All of this can be adjusted when printing games using CB8, but when
>copying from CB8 to a word processor, those settings seem to have no effect on
>what is copied to the clipboard.
>
>Incidentally, I purchased ChessMaster900 a couple of days ago and the manual for
>it says to select courier font in the Word Processor before pasting.  That
>essential little piece of information doesn't seem to appear in the online help
>files for CB8.  If I had not read the CB900 manual, I wouldn't have known how to
>do it using CB8!  [I did not receive a printed manual with CB8.]
>
>If you have time, you might try doing this and see if there is some subtle trick
>I'm overlooking.
>
>Bob D.

I have no problems with that. I just use my Teledat Fax printer and click on
preview. A Teledat 150 Faxview window appears and I can copy the flipped
diagrams from there in my clipboard. then I paste them into Word. works fine

Michael



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