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The resolution of your display is about 96dpi. The issue with the scroll bar
is that it is set up in Windows to be a chequerboard. You need to redefine
how it is set up in Windows, which is a registry hack. According to Steve
Kubis, in the Adobe User to User forums' FrameMaker forum
(http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html), the issue is this:
"Half of the pixels in the scrollbar are based on the "Scrollbar" color for
Windows, and the other half are based on the "ButtonHighlight" color.
Unfortunately, you can't change these colors using the Display Properties.
You need to use RegEdit to change them directly in the registry. The
settings are located in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Colors. I typically
set both of these color values to "224 224 224", which is a nice light gray
color. Restart Windows, and your moire pattern will go away."
I don't happen to have that particular registry entry, but you might.
Otherwise, you have to find where, in Windows' registry, this is set.
As for Interleaf using its own proprietary format, all software that lets
you import graphics uses a way to display the graphics to screen that is its
own. Word does, as does FrameMaker, etc. Some apply more aliasing than
others, so you will see a difference on-screen.
HTH,
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
The following is <snipped>:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich, Charles [SMTP:crich -at- FSC -dot- Follett -dot- com]
> The problem I am seeing is in the scroll
> bar of the window; instead of being a nice light speckled gray, it comes
> out
> as a loud gray and black checkerboard pattern when printed.
>
> At first I thought it might be a simple dithering problem, as we would
> take
> a color screenshot, grayscale it, and import it as a TIFF into Interleaf 6
> documents. I tried all different dithering schemes, color correction, and
> whatnot, all to no avail.
>
> My next thought was that maybe this was related to the fact that Interleaf
> actually converts Tiffs to its own, proprietary format,
>
> Ok, so maybe it was Paintshop that was introducing the problem. No, uh-uh,
> I
> tried a couple of other graphics editors with the same result. Could it be
> the printer?
>
> I looked at previous versions of our manuals, and it seems the problem has
> always been there. Finally, I decided to poke my head out and see if
> anyone
> else had the same problem, and low and behold in both the Interleaf and
> Paintshop manuals themselves (among others) the scrollbar checkerboarding
> glared off the page.
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