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Ah. Well, there are a host of issues, none of which are format related.
Truthfully, I take screenshots all the time and can confidently save to
**any** lossless bitmap format with confidence, including GIF. The
"underwater" thing made me think of bitmap aliasing, which made me suspect
you were editing them.
Cheers,
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janice Gelb [SMTP:janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com]
>
> In article ORG -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com, Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com ("Brierley, Sean")
> writes:
> >Hallo:
> >
> >It sounds like you are resizing or otherwise editing your GIFs. I have as
> >much luck with GIFs as TIFFs and BMPs, which is to say, pretty good (GIGO
> >notwithstanding).
> >
>
> Nope - no editing or resizing involved. They're just
> screenshots that look really crummy when printed.
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