Printing
 

How about integrating a nice <Print> function into the game so that we can print the ship inventory screen? We computer illiterates who don’t own a lot of whiz-bang software could surely use it. Not only would I like a picture of my pretty spaceship, but having it as a handy hard copy would be nice for planning, battle, etc.

Re: Printing
 

Hrm...I find that pretty useless, especially since I don't have a printer atm...but *shrug* http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I am an engineer. I like having hard copy and I like to spend time studying it, planning on it while not playing. The lack of printing facilities in games has long been a pet peeve of mine. I have never understood the lack since it seems like it would be so easy to implement. Organising, crunching and printing data is what PCs do! I have probably printed half a ream of reports this morning alone. Now I get to study them and revise and reprint them.....

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To each his/her own, I guess, but I don't think I'd have any use for a print function, either.
However, you could just take the meathead approach and run the game in windowed mode, then alt-printscrn, paste the image into your trusty image editor, and print it from there. Not necessarily intuitive, I know, but it would work.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">For whatever reason, I've never been able to make that work. A quick, easy in-game print is the ticket. And I still want a pretty color picture of my ship with all of the slots filled and labelled, inventory detailed, etc. :-) Something I can remember fondly as the expanding plasma cloud dissipates....

[ January 07, 2004, 17:35: Message edited by: solops ]

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif Engeneers *shakes head* http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Now, now. You DO like bridges that don't fall down, don't you. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

(Gotta defend my kind, even if I think a print function is, umm, of limited utility. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif )

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Does the Print Screen work in SF? I thought it did.
Hmm