Fwd: Re: Text files

[leisha]

Photoshop is great; I use CorelDraw. It handles text really well.

Leisha Wharfield
Production Coordinator
Decision Research
Eugene, Oregon, USA
leisha at decisionresearch.org
www.decisionresearch.org

Nick Coupland wrote:

> Another way to do this is to use the text function in Photoshop and
> save as  bitmap files, which gives you a lot of control over the
> appearance of your screens
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>> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:42:58 +0100
>> From: Georg Odenthal <odenthal at soz.psychologie.uni-konstanz.de>
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>> Hello Richard,
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>> As far as I know E-Prime isn't able to import text files and display
>> them. The only option you have is what Leisha Wharfield had suggested:
>> Create individual bitmaps for each screen.
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>> To do that open your Word or other text document and open Paint (Start
>> -> Program Files -> Accessories -> Paint). Select Full Screen in Word
>> (View -> Full Screen). Then press the keys ALT and PRINT SCREEN at the
>> same time. Go to paint and select Edit -> Paste (or press CTRL + V).
>> You will get an exact copy of the whole screen. Now you only have to
>> remove the borders of the image and the "Close Full Screen" button,
>> that Word always displays. Save the image as BMP.
>> Then you can use these text screens as Image Displays or Slides in
>> E-Prime.
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>> With this method you can also create stimuli in foreign languages with
>> non-standard fonts or right to left writing.
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>> In our lab we also use this method to create formatted instruction
>> screens with individual words in bold, italics, underlining or in
>> different colors.
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>> Best regards,
>>  Georg
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