atw: Re: screen dump resolution
- From: "Dent, John" <John.Dent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:32:10 +1000
Hi Christine
I too have this problem, but I get better screenshots with Windows in
Classic mode.
With Word, when you insert a graphic, it often resizes and this causes
distortion. Right-click the graphic, select Format Picture and check the
height and width settings under the size tab. Any setting other than
100% will distort the graphic. But Word is really helpful here, it often
alters one or both settings, whether they need it or not.
Good luck
John
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christine Kent
Sent: Monday, 15 September 2008 10:11 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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