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In my opinion, the ideal is to have two versions of the files: one in which
the graphics are full-size or near-full size, for screen viewing (Help files
& PDF's). Large screen shots, printed at full size, take up too much space
and don't look very professional; therefore, I like to have also have a
Print version in which the larger graphics are scaled to 50% or 60% of full
size. This is the only way that I have found to get reasonable graphics
quality on-screen and in print.
Hope that helps,
Walt
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From: Cayenne Woods <cwoods -at- purplevoice -dot- com> asked:
>
> I read lots here on screenshots, and came to the conclusion that there's
only so
> much you can do to make them look good. Our software has huge screens and
must
> be scaled. My thoughts, and I was backed up on this, were that they should
be a
> representation of what users see on-screen, not a duplication. In
FrameMaker, I
> could resize and have no quality loss - but we're using Word. And ForeHelp
for
> the Help files.
>
> I've now got someone saying that wmf will have no quality loss, which
makes
> sense because it's a vector format. But I don't get any better results
when
> scaling these than for BMPs (plus I'm sure I must have tried this early on
and
> come to this conclusion).
>
> Any knowledge on this?
>
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