Send clipboard to .tif file?

[666]

There are plenty of tricks to send stuff to the clipboard, and a few tricks to send the contents of the clipboard to a text file, but does anyone know a trick to make an image file from the contents of the clipboard?

Of course I could open my image editor, paste the clipboard into it, and then save the image, but that's a lot of work if you quickly want to store a bunch of screenshots.

Is it possible to write a script (.vbs or .bat) that:

1) opens Paint

2) pastes the clipboard into the open paint window

3) saves the fresh file to the desktop in an image format of my choice, preferably .tif

4) closes Paint

All without any user input, apart from doubleclicking the script to launch it.

I know how to write .bats, but .vbs is a different animal. Any tips?

[MrCobra]

I don't know of any automated solutions for it, but you can render the clipboard memory buffers to a DC (device context) and save it out to a file format of your choice. It may be beyond the scope of what you're asking for, but if you have any programming knowledge it's a simple task to perform.

[TranceEnergy]

I had a nlite addon which include a program which did something like this, i would go browse ryanvm and go over the nlite addons and check for what programs that include system productivity applications. Actually i believe it was a addon by Kels'

but this was a couple of years back, and memory doesnt serve at this time =(.