atw: screen dump resolution
- From: "Christine Kent" <c.bkent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:10:42 +1000
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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