Yup, John's got a good point. Word is NOT a graphics program. Might be a bleeding-obvious kind of statement, but what some people don't realise is that if you let Word do _anything_ to a graphic - resize it, crop it, etc - you'll often lose quality in the image. When the image is a screenshot, the problem's a lot more obvious.
Sadly (because I know how much extra work is involved), I think you're much better off setting SnagIt to auto-save screenshots and then manually insert them.
- Naomi Dent, John wrote:
Hi ChristineI 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------*From:* austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [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 GuysI am really struggling to get good resolution on screen dumps from Word or Excel, into Word 2007, via SnagIt.The program sourceAt 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 computerI 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.SnagItI 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 documentWhen 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 conversionAdd 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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