switching to CMS/strategy for screenshots needed

[Patryk Korman <patryk -dot- korman -at- native-instruments -dot- de>]

Hello everyone,

I'm preparing a content management system and the documentation 
processes in our techwrite department for switiching to cm within the 
next few weeks. Now altogether this took about a year andâwith great 
foresightâI saved the best parts for the end.
So now there's a problem which I'm not quite sure how to address: 90% of 
our documentation is software manuals, so there is a lot of screenshots 
involved. Screenshots are taken by the authors (external), placed in the 
source documents (word/Oo), and sized to fit later on when we shape 
documents in the DTP app. Now for the future, there will be no more 
manual document design, so the graphics have to arrive at the cms in a 
final size. What I could do:
1. Take screenshots on a single computer, find a size that fits the 
layout and batch-size all graphics after importing the documents to the 
cms (but I can't, since screenshots have to be taken by the authors on 
their private computers)
2. Adjust the size in the cms one by one after importing the documents 
(no option since PDFs are created dynamically from data base content, so 
there'd be no layout context for orientation. Furthermore, I don't want 
to do that).
3. Find a way to somehow import the screenshots exactly the same size 
they were sized to within the word document.
Now obviously option three would be the most favorable, but I haven't 
found an adequate way or tool yet.
If anyone ever came across a similar problem and found a solution, or if 
you have any ideas, input is greatly appreciated.

Best wishes,
Pat

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