RE: Importing screen shots in Word

["Lisa Wright" <liwright -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

Hi Ellen,
Short answer: Shrink, don't enlarge. Otherwise it sounds like you're
doing just fine.

Long answer: Your screen captures are bitmaps, yes? Made up of little
dots. It's okay to shrink them, but enlarging them is going to reduce
your picture quality because the dots just get bigger. You can sometimes
increase the sharpness by shrinking. Remember to use the percentage
method, and be sure to do it proportionally, or you'll get distorted
images. I typically set the window up and take the same size capture,
paste it into the graphics program I'm using, save it in the format I
want. Then import it, and if I shrink them at all, use the same
percentage for all of them so everything looks consistent. It helps with
the production quality.

Now, if you create a vector image in, say, Visio, and import that, you
can shrink or enlarge it as much as you want. Vector formats include
WMF, VSD, and I think Illustrator. I'm sure there are others. Because
the vector image uses a calculation to determine where the lines should
be in relation to each other, they can be enlarged without losing any
quality.

There's lots of stuff in the archives about vector and bitmap images--I
understand the difference but I the above explanations are about as far
as I can go. I anticipate gently offered corrections and clarifications
coming my way! Anyway, hope that helps.

Lisa 


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