RE: Blurry printed image (not a screen shot)

[Tara English-Sweeney <tesweeney -at- novadigm -dot- com>]

Hi Steve. Thanks for the information - it's quite helpful in understanding
all of this. However, the one thing is - this isn't a screen shot. I'm
dealing with the original GIF files.... they're being imported to Visio and
saved, then inserted into Word. But, maybe I'll take a screen shot of the
GIFs and see if that does anything. If you have any other thoughts about
what I can do with those GIFs, I'd love to hear them.

I have to try some other things as well, that other list members have
suggested. So, hopefully something will pan out. I'll let you all know if it
does.

Thanks again.
Tara

Steve Hudson wrote:

Take the screen shot in a higher-res, like 12x8. It halves the required
chunkiness. Also, set your printer to 300dpi and THAT will halve it as well.

Other than that you can (bad option) add res with  good dithering and
interpolation routines. Tis an old problem, we have low-res for screen, and
high-res for printers. Never the twain shall meet :-(. Tis also the reason
for "My PDF graphics are blurry" etc etc.

When your screenshots in word are at 100%, they are roughly at 100dpi. Thus,
to get good printed graphics, the screenshots need to look good on screen
scaled to 33%. Any reduction in picture scale will help this, as the reduced
size means less physcial area for the limited number of picture elements to
be printed across.

Steve Hudson
Principal Technical Writer
Wright Technologies (Aus)
steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au
(612) 9518-1822
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