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Subject:Re: The word on Word From:MAGGIE SECARA <SECARAM -at- MAINSAVER -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 5 Feb 1999 11:19:39 -0800
I always put my screen shots through PaintShopPro and turn them to
straight grey scale. We're not printing in color anyway, so there's no
reason to keep the graphics in color at all. Smaller file size, happier
document, happy writer :)
"When I'm old, I don't want them to say of me, "She's
so charming." I want them to say, "Be careful, I think
she's armed." -G. Stoddart
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Townsend, Emru [SMTP:etownsend -at- POSITRON -dot- QC -dot- CA]
> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 7:26 AM
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> Subject: Re: The word on Word
>
> Another good idea -- regardless of whether you link or not -- is to
> reduce
> the colors in your graphics. For instance, most screen shots that use
> the
> standard Windows colors can be reduced to 16 colors easily. The
> resulting
> images take up less memory and less disk space.
