Re: screenshots question

Subject: Re: screenshots question
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 10:41:58 -0800

Cayenne Woods wrote:

> I read lots here on screenshots, and came to the conclusion that there's only so
> much you can do to make them look good. Our software has huge screens and must
> be scaled. My thoughts, and I was backed up on this, were that they should be a
> representation of what users see on-screen, not a duplication. In FrameMaker, I
> could resize and have no quality loss - but we're using Word. And ForeHelp for
> the Help files.
>

Maybe I've missed something, but couldn't you sidestep part of this
issue by using closeups after you've shown the entire screen once?

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