Re: Acrobat 5.0 bug???

Subject: Re: Acrobat 5.0 bug???
From: "Richard G. Combs" <richard -dot- combs -at- voyanttech -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:05:17 -0600


Sue Ahrenhold <SAhrenhold -at- IpdSolution -dot- com> wrote:

> .GIFs print fuzzier (technical term) than .TIFs. They have a high enough
> resolution (that is, pixels per square inch) to display well onscreen, but
> they don't print well. You also lose depth of color.

If your monitor is displaying 96 dpi, and you do a screen capture of it,
you'll get 96 dots per inch (at 100% size), whether you save it as a GIF,
TIFF, PNG, or BMP. If you import it into Frame at 200 dpi (thus making it a
little less than half as big), it will have 200 dots per inch, whether it's
a GIF, TIFF, PNG, or BMP. As long as you don't use a lossy format (e.g.,
JPEG), there's no difference in terms of resolution.

GIF is limited to 256 colors (8-bit color depth), but for most screen
captures, that should be enough. If not, I suggest the PNG (Portable Network
Graphics) format. Even with 24-bit color, a PNG isn't much bigger than an
equivalent GIF. It's significantly smaller than a TIFF, and *far* smaller
than a BMP.

HTH!
Richard

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Richard G. Combs
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Voyant Technologies, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT voyanttechDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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