atw: Re: screen dump resolution
- From: "Rhonda Bracey" <rhonda.bracey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:04:33 +0800
Hi Christine
My first recommendation is to dump JPGs for screen shots. JPGs are
designed for photos only and are lossy, which means they degrade every
time you save.
I have had good success with the default SnagIt settings and saving to
either PNG (16m colours; my preference) or GIF (256 colours) then
inserting into Word.
The advantage of PNGs (other than the 16m colours) is that they have a
very small file size (similar to GIF), aren't 'lossy', and work on the
web too.
Others will no doubt offer other suggestions, but try changing the
output format of your screen captures to PNG first and see if that makes
any difference.
Rhonda
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christine Kent
Sent: Monday, 15 September 2008 8:16 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: screen dump resolution
Hi Guys
I am really struggling to get good resolution on screen dumps from Word
or Excel, into Word 2007, via SnagIt.
The program source
At the source, Office only three choices of scheme, with no
modifications that I can see. These all turn into wishy washy grey
scale when printed with a black and white print. I cannot find any
other way of adjusting colours in Word or Excel apart from these three
settings.
My computer
I can tweak the colour display of my computer which does result in
different colour screen shots. I can make the colours much sharper, but
this seems to have no impact on the resolution of the text.
SnagIt
I can select greyscale in SnagIt, but my knowledge of graphics is not
good enough to tweak anything else in a meaningful way. It does allow
you to change the resolution from the default 96 dpi to something else,
but this does not seem to change the end result once you have scaled the
dump to the size you want. I have the default save set to .jpg and
tested .bmp but that makes no difference either (not that a document of
.bmp screen shots would be viable anyway).
The destination document
When you dump the capture into a Word document, again I can see no way
of improving the resolution. I have compared the three different office
colour schemes, SnagIt grey scale and SnagIt 600 dpi, and although they
all look different on-screen, the print of each is equally lousy.
PDF conversion
Add to this converting to PDF - which does not seem to lose any or much
of the Word resolution. The PDF save function in Word allows a maximum
resolution of 300dpi.
Has anyone any clues - perhaps a composite of a number of tweaks that
adds up to something useful?
Regards
Christine
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