RE: Fuzzy screen captures in Adobe PDFs

Subject: RE: Fuzzy screen captures in Adobe PDFs
From: Emru Townsend <etownsen -at- Softimage -dot- com>
To: "'techwrl'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:08:58 -0500

When you reduce a screen shot, it likely uses some kind of resampling to
smoothe the image. That's great for more naturalistic color images -- it
reduces some of the crispness you get when you throw out pixels -- but
screen shots generally don't have the pixels to spare.

Your images look fine in print because you're probably not expecting to read
the screenshot in any detail. But onscreen it'll be incredibly obvious.

In short, the software isn't the culprit.

Emru Townsend, Information Developer of the New Millennium
Softimage, Inc.
etownsen -at- softimage -dot- com
Personal Web site: http://purpleplanetmedia.com
Recent musings: http://www.montreal.com/tech/1999/10/26email.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Lewis [mailto:Writer -dot- lewis -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net]
> Subject: Fuzzy screen captures in Adobe PDFs
>
>
> We have been having a problem when viewing and printing out PDF versions
of
> our manuals that contain screen captures.
> When taking bitmap screen captures using FullShot, it appears that large
> screen captures (or even portions of a full-screen) become "fuzzy" or
blurry
> in appearance when viewed with Acrobat reader if the captures are reduced
> to below 60% of their original size. If the capture is kept at a larger
> size, it looks fine, but if it is a full-screen capture, it is too large
to
> print so we scale them down.
>
> The reduced capture prints fine in Adobe Illustrator and in Framemaker.
But
> when a PDF of the document is made, these large, reduced captures look
poor.
> Only Acrobat 3.01 has been used. Is it possible that Acrobat 4 will solve
> this problem?




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