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>The solution is to scale screen shots to a multiple of the printer's
>resolution or screen frequency. This will make sure that one pixel of the
>screen shot will turn into one or a cluster of 2x2, 3x3 etc. pixels on the
>final printer.
OK, but would someone please explain, slowly and in monosyllables, how to
implement this? My printer's Properties / Graphics / Halftoning is set to
"use printer's settings", which is 60. How does this translate into the
pixel scaling of the image? Do I make the height of the image a multiple of
60? Please explain in non-PhotoShop-centric terms.
OTOH, how 'bout just saying "no" to screenshots? This must one of the
biggest tree-wasters going. I'm thinking of all those 400-page
screenshot-padded tomes. Users are sitting in front of the software 99 per
cent of the time they're reading the guide anyway, so why bother? If I had a
nickel for every time I've come into a project and found a developers' draft
embedded with megabytes of million-color screenshots.... Must be some
impulse left over from schooldays when essays had to be a certain length.
More is better, right? I like ice cream -- so why have one scoop when I can
have three?
John Cornellier,
cornelli -at- clarmart -dot- srpc -dot- slb -dot- com
