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Subject:Re: PDF screenshots From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 28 May 1999 11:09:07 -0700
Lisa:
>Hello, we are currently capturing screens using Paint Shop Pro, saving
>as a 16 colors BMP, inserting to Word as a picture and finally using
>PDFWriter to create the PDF. The screenshots look terrible in PDF form,
>both on the screen and printed. Any ideas?
If you use PDFWriter, I'm not surprised. Use Distiller instead.
--Wayne
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Verity, Inc. FAX: 408-542-2040
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