Re: Screenshot degradation when copying from Word

[Goober TechComm <techcommgoober -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> 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.

Are you shrinking the images for display in the help?
that will distort your image display online.

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