Re: screenshots - to crop or resize, that is the question...

["Mark L. Levinson" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il>]

Haven't got the hang of Netscape 6.2 and inadvertently
sent my previous message incomplete.  I didn't
mean to imply that because it didn't hire me,
the company went out of business.  To paraphrase
Hemingway, every true story ends with going
out of business.

Anyway...

I find changes of magnification ugly.  They
change the paradigm from "suppose you and I
are looking at the screen together" to "suppose
you and I are looking at the screen together
while I push and pull your chair."

If cropping can't solve all the problems,
even at the cost of violating margins, then
I think that restricting the number of zoom
levels minimizes the ugliness.  That is to
say, instead of shrinking each screenshot
ad hoc (one to 96%, one to 92%, one to 85%)
I advise choosing only a few zoom factors
and adhering to them like styles.

In one recent book, I had one magnification
for icons, a lower magnifiction for parts of
the screen, and a third magnification for
shots of the whole screen.  YMMV.

Mark L. Levinson
Herzlia, Israel
nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il



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