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Subject:Re: Graphics from mobile devices From:"Gunther Schmidt" <schmidt -at- gtr -dot- sczfk -dot- de> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Sat, 13 Sep 2003 08:17:11 +0200
Jessica Nealon wrote:
> Does anyone have information about how to get clear
> graphics from mobile (PDA) devices? With color LCDs?
Jessica,
I only have experience with PalmOS devices. There are some screenshot
utilities available, and with the most comfortable one ("Screenshot", http://www.linkesoft.de/screenshot/) the images are copied as BMP or GIF
files to the PC at every HotSync.
> There is a lot of distortion when uploading from the
> device to the PC that I cannot fix in graphics
> editors.
This is not the case with "Screenshot".
> Are there online resources for this kind of thing? I
> am utterly bewildered.