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> I wonder if anyone else out there can tell me how to fix a
> problem I have
> had in the past with screen shots for our docs? Most of the
> screen shots in
> our documentation are Paintshop captures of various screens
> of our user
> interface at 800 X 600 resolution. The problem I am seeing is
> in the scroll
> bar of the window; instead of being a nice light speckled
> gray, it comes out
> as a loud gray and black checkerboard pattern when printed.
Others already commented on the Moire effect.
The best cure that I know of is:
1 Switch to 256 colors.
2 Select the Properties window of your monitor, select
the Appearance tab.
3 Select the scheme "Contrast White" (the German name is
"Kontrast Weiß"; maybe the English name is different).
4 Then change all settings of the different window elements
to the values they had before in your previous scheme.
Leave only the scrollbar settings as they are.
That´s it. It works perfectly. I forgot who gave me this info.
Nothing else (true colour, certain dpi values, scaling,
changing registry entries etc.) worked. Only this.
If you are on Windows NT I could send you the corresponding
reg file to import the settings into your registry.
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