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Subject:RE: H E L P screenshots look like crap From:"Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 24 May 2004 23:39:08 -0400
A darn near-bulletproof solution is to save the Word document as HTML! A
subfolder is created containing JPGs of the resized crappy Word images, and
a CLEAN, 1:1 aspect ratio PNG file of every image in that document which you
can use however you'd like.
On the side, and to be kept tucked under your cap, if your boss is handing
you screenshots embedded in Word to be used in another application, then
someone OTHER THAN YOU is initially mucking up the quality. ;)
Fortunately for you, and us all, there's save as HTML! ;)
Bill Swallow
wswallow "at" nycap "dot" rr "dot" com
::: -----Original Message-----
::: If you're rescuing images from a Word document, for
::: photographic type
::: stuff or anything that has been rasterized, a screen
::: capture works best
::: if you have the real estate to go to 150% or higher view
::: and still keep
::: everthing you need in sight.
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