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Subject:Re: Screenshot degradation when copying from Word From:Alan Alda <alan4077alda -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:21:33 -0800 (PST)
Hi Goober,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, the procedure you
described works perfect. What I did was to link the
images placeholders to the original png file rather
than the gif for that png which word creates. When I
print out the result, it looks great! However, I am
now facing a reverse problem. The png does not look
good when displayed on-screen. In fact, I cannot read
anything that is written in the menus in my
screenshots on screen. When printed though, I can read
it perfectly well. Is there something I should be
doing differently? Can I achieve both on screen
clarity as well as print clarity?> Actually, on screen
clarity is more important to me since it is online
help. However, occasionally users might want to print
a topic. Therefore, I want the print output to be
decent as well.
Thanks,
Alan.
--- Goober TechComm <techcommgoober -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> In Word (Word 2000 anyway) when you save a file as
> HTML, it creates a subfolder of all extracted
> images.
> Every image that was imported as a filetype is
> exported as that Filetype (so my experience tells
> me),
> and any embedded image pasted into Word from a
> clipboard is exported as a JPG that is scaled to
> mirror what's in the Word file, AND there's a
> full-size PNG for each of these embedded images.
> Convert the PNG to GIF or BMP (or use PNG directly
> if
> you can) and you're good to go.
>
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