Screenshot resolution query, with apologies

Subject: Screenshot resolution query, with apologies
From: jrondeau <jrondeau -at- OREGON -dot- UOREGON -dot- EDU>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:29:56 -0700


Dear all,
I've spent the last near-hour hunting through the archives without success. I
know I saw a quite-recent discussion on file formats and screenshot resolution
on this list, but I cannot find it. So, with apologies for repetition (and
I'll gladly accept suggestions for appropriate search topics rather than
direct answers!), here's my problem/question:

I'm a new user of SnagIt for screen/window/etc shots and need to scale fairly
precisely for my current application, which is an Install Guide done in
PageMaker. I've played around w/ different graphics formats and w/ different
SnagIt resolutions, but I'm still not happy w/ my output. So far what seems
to work best is a GIF file at (I'm still fiddling w/ it) around 150 dpi in
SnagIt, but it's still not very good, and on principle I'm not a fan of the
GIF format. Any other variables I should try tweaking? Other ways of
scaling?

One thing that has me puzzled is that SnagIt's resolution setting doesn't seem
to affect what I think of as resolution at all -- it simply makes output
(depending on the application) a different size. This variable does seem to
be dependent also on file format, but I still haven't figured out entirely
how.

If there's a good help entry in SnagIt, tell me and I'll go there, but I
haven't found what I need yet.

Thanks,
Jennifer



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