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Subject:RE: Question about graphics - PDF, HTML From:"Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:40:25 -0400
::: The process (don't ask me to justify it, I inherited this
::: from a previous company, didn't want to mess with what
::: seemed to work) is to take a screen shot (SnagIt) at 600
::: dpi, save it as a GIF, import into Frame at 600 dpi and
::: then scale it up 350%.
LOL! It's 96dpi... Now 600... Now 96... Now 600... And now freakin' huge
too! *LOL* Who invented this process? A GIF at 600dpi is the same as a
GIF at 96 dpi.
::: They turn out tolerably crisp in
::: PDFs. Recently we've expanded our workflow to include HTML
::: for some documents, and the graphics are quite poor - they
::: look as bad as or worse than they do in Frame. Screen shots
::: taken at low resolution (72) seem to make good HTML pages
::: but are far too large in Frame, and any down-scaling
::: introduces blurriness again.
You should read Sean Brierley's paper on screen captures here on the
TECHWR-L site. 72 dpi, you're still using VGA and old Macs? *LOL*
::: Rather than change settings at random and see which ones
::: might improve things, I thought I would ask this august
::: company if you have solved similar problems in the past?
::: Presumably the matter is a simple one created by my own
::: ignorance of graphics formats.
Read Sean's paper. :)
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