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Looking for specific clip art (the "link" or "arrow" cursor in windo

Augustus

2005-01-28, 7:44 pm

Hiya,

I've been searching around for a little while here looking for some specific
clip art...

What I am looking for is the "link" cursor (the hand with the index finger
up) and/or the "arrow" cursor used in windows (that you use to click on
things)

The catch being that I need it in a vector format (IE: EPS) so a GIF or JPG
won't really do

Anybody know of any sites that I might be able to get this from? Or can I
pull them out of windows some how? (can't take a screen shot, that won't
work)

Thanks!

Clint

Matt Probert

2005-01-28, 7:44 pm

Once upon a time, far far away, the king summoned "Augustus"
<Imperial.Palace@Rome.com> who replied:

>Anybody know of any sites that I might be able to get this from? Or can I
>pull them out of windows some how? (can't take a screen shot, that won't
>work)

Take a screen shot, then trace them with a Vector drawing system such
as Corel Draw

Failing that, IMSI publish lots of Vector clip art.

Matt

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Augustus

2005-01-28, 7:44 pm

"Matt Probert" <comments@probertencyclopaedia.com> wrote in message
news:41fa8c25.11811163@news.ntlworld.com...
> Once upon a time, far far away, the king summoned "Augustus"
> <Imperial.Palace@Rome.com> who replied:
>
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>
> Take a screen shot, then trace them with a Vector drawing system such
> as Corel Draw

I tried that... but when I take a screen shot it doesn't show the cursor (it
does show the "hover" tooltip though)

I finally managed to find one though... had a friend log in to MSN Messenger
who had something I could use.

Turned out ok... I needed it for some POP signs I'm working on, showing the
pointer "clicking" on some food... end product looked pretty decent (better
than some of the stuff we had before)

Norman L. DeForest

2005-01-29, 4:20 am

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Augustus wrote:

> "Matt Probert" <comments@probertencyclopaedia.com> wrote in message
> news:41fa8c25.11811163@news.ntlworld.com...
> I
>
> I tried that... but when I take a screen shot it doesn't show the cursor (it
> does show the "hover" tooltip though)

If all you need is a small portion of the screen, one thing you can do is
turn on the magnifier (if you have it) and then take a screen-shot with
that running. The mouse cursor won't show up in the unmagnified screen
area but it will be visible in the screen-shot of the magnified area.
Just shrink that back to normal size and paste it over the appropriate
spot in the unmagnified area.

If it's the same place on your machine as it is on my Windows 98 machine,
click "Programs" > "Accessories" > "Accessibility" > "Magnifier".

That's what I used to capture the images of my "Flashing Cursor" animated
mouse cursor which can be found at:
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/Tips.html#Tip023

A screen-shot of the magnifier in action (available for a week):
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/temp/magnify.gif
(To be uploaded as soon as I send this. Ignore the terrible colours.
MS Paint does gruesome and hideous things to the image palette when a
24-bit *.bmp screenshot is converted by it to a 256-colour *.gif (another
series of screen shots taken at a different had a light tan background
changed to blue).)

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Richard

2005-01-29, 4:20 am

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:35:31 -0800 Augustus wrote:

> Hiya,

> I've been searching around for a little while here looking for some
> specific
> clip art...

> What I am looking for is the "link" cursor (the hand with the index
> finger
> up) and/or the "arrow" cursor used in windows (that you use to click on
> things)

> The catch being that I need it in a vector format (IE: EPS) so a GIF or
> JPG
> won't really do

> Anybody know of any sites that I might be able to get this from? Or
> can I
> pull them out of windows some how? (can't take a screen shot, that
> won't
> work)

> Thanks!

> Clint

Those are basically cursor files.
You can try looking in c:\widnows\cursors for them.
For taking screen shots to get the images, open control panel and the mouse.
Find the images in the pointers tab.

Search google for a few zillion "free cursors".