RE: H E L P screenshots look like crap

["Laurel Hickey" <lhickey -at- 2morrow -dot- bc -dot- ca>]

I know it's not always possible to get original images that are worth
the effort -- or at all. 

If you're rescuing images from a Word document, for photographic type
stuff or anything that has been rasterized, a screen capture works best
if you have the real estate to go to 150% or higher view and still keep
everthing you need in sight. Do the 'print screen' and then paste into
Photoshop or whatever. Crop and then save at the desired size and
resolution. For images that you don't have the space to see everything
of, you can do two or more screen captures and then reassemble in
Photoshop.

For vector-based images or compilations of text box text and drawing
objects, you want to retain the vector/text qualities ... Note that
vector charts and graphs that haven't been pasted as a 'picture'. I
print the Word pages that have the images I want to pdf from Word, crop
as needed, and then place each pdf page in my layout program where I
want them. I use InDesign ... Not sure Quark handles pdfs like this. 

For using these images elsewhere, you can save them as eps... you get
one eps file per page... At least with InDesign. Saving as eps directly
from the pdf may or may not work... I've had mixed results, but then I
work with some very strange files!

:-)

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Laurel Hickey
2morrow writing & document design
lhickey -at- 2morrow -dot- bc -dot- ca
http://www.2morrow.bc.ca


Any method of increasing resolution that doesn't include reducing image
size is just wasting disk space!




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