Re: lookin' for a PDF alternative
I use PDFs along with online help. The PDF graphics, of course, display poorly, but in my latest batch of user guides, they also print poorly. I am not doing anything different to capture and process them. The source docs for the PDFs are Word files. So, I have two questions:
1. How much impact does the source have on the finished product? Obviously, if the source is poor the screen shot will be poor. But poor quality is not the issue here. Can the GUI's design, color choice, etc. affect a screen shot?
Your distill settings will affect your PDF. If you have your graphics set in Acrobat to be downsampled and compressed using JPEG compression, your display images are going to be very poor.
I recommend changing your settings so that graphic images are NOT downsampled, and use the Zip compression method, which is not a lossy compression.
Scott
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Announcing new options for IPCC 01, October 24-27 in Santa Fe,
New Mexico: attend the entire event or select a single day. For details and online registration, visit http://ieeepcs.org/2001
Your monthly sponsorship message here reaches more than
5000 technical writers, providing 2,500,000+ monthly impressions.
Contact Eric (ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com) for details and availability.
---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as: archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot- Visit http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.
References:
lookin' for a PDF alternative: From: Writer Whirler
Previous by Author:
Re: FW: Programs for Writing
Next by Author:
Re: Adobe Acrobat/Word
Previous by Thread:
lookin' for a PDF alternative
Next by Thread:
Re: lookin' for a PDF alternative
Search our Technical Writing Archives & Magazine
Visit TechWhirl's Other Sites
Sponsored Ads