Re: Screenshot resolution query, with apologies

Subject: Re: Screenshot resolution query, with apologies
From: "Sean Brierley" <sbri -at- haestad -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:26:31 -0400


Greetings from the digest:

I recommend you do set a "dpi" in SnagIT. That gives you, at least, a
standard for all your images. Maybe you can then resize only a few
exceptions, rather than each and every capture. And, remember, while a
screen capture is only about a number of pixels, resolution information
is used by desktop publishing software to determine relative image
dimensions on the page.

The JPEG versus PNG versus GIF versus TIFF versus EPS debate is all
about file-type limitations. Pick the type that meets your needs. None
is absolutely "better" than the others, with a nod to JPEG's lossy
compression being a potential drawback.

As for blurryness on-screen, it can be addressed successfully, if you
want, though the place to do it is not in FrameMaker unless you are
delivering FrameMaker files to your reader; the place to consider this
is in the PDF output, if that is your deliverable.

Cheers,

Sean

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Sean Brierley
Software Documentation Specialist
Haestad Methods
http://www.haestad.com
203-805-0572 (voice)
203-597-1488 (fax)



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Subject: Re: Screenshot resolution query, with apologies
From: Jan Henning <henning -at- r-l -dot- de>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:46:03 +0200
X-Message-Number: 40

>One thing that has me puzzled is that SnagIt's resolution setting
doesn't
>seem
>to affect what I think of as resolution at all -- it simply makes
output
>(depending on the application) a different size. This variable does
seem =
to
>be dependent also on file format, but I still haven't figured out
entirely
>how.


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