atw: Re: screen dump resolution
- From: "Christine Kent" <c.bkent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:12:01 +1000
What do you know about .wmf. I compared each of the formats in SnagIt and
if anything, .wmf was marginally (it's all miniscule) better than .png, and
both are marginally better than .jpg.
Christine
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rhonda Bracey
Sent: Monday, 15 September 2008 12:05 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: screen dump resolution
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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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[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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