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RE: Image formats (was: Word Figure Captions - a new ques...
Subject:RE: Image formats (was: Word Figure Captions - a new ques... From:kimber_miller -at- acs-inc -dot- com To:<smcclare -at- neptec -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 08 Dec 1999 12:15:18 -0600
Subject: RE: Image formats (was: Word Figure Captions - a new question)
Scott makes valid points about "Lossiness" tendencies of .jpg. Point taken.
In my experience, inserting .bmp screen caps in a Word doc causes the doc to be
of a larger size than if another graphic format, such as .gif. TIF files seem to
be not appreciably smaller than BMP files. I have always printed screen caps
grayscale, so have not had the color issues/process that Jane references in her
message.
Incidentally, I was on a team that used grayscale screen caps as a workaround
when a client wanted screen caps in the Help file and the tech writers didn't
want to confuse the user.
Enjoy the day,
--Kimber
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