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Subject:RE: THANK YOU BILL ! re: crappy screenshots From:"John Posada" <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 25 May 2004 10:33:44 -0400
I'll take this step one step further.
In PSP, you have a feature called Browse. Every time I get a Word
document, usually a Requirements document, I save it as HTML, then use
PSP Browse to create a catalog of the images from the file. I print this
catalog with two images per page (Unselect thumbnails, the printing will
be slower, but much better print images) and place it in the binder in
back of the document.
Since I use FM, when I need to reuse an image, I locate it in the
printed catalog, open in PSP, resize (I like bicubic resizing to 500 or
300 pixels wide depending on whether they are full-size windows or
smaller dialogs) and color adjust, then save with an identifiable name
as a GIF in my FM Images directory.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Isogon Corporation http://www.isogon.com
"Realizing Your Business Goals
Through Software Asset Management"
I must publicly thank Bill for that EXCELLENT tip about saving a word
file as html, thus extracting all the figures as .png files. Opening
them up in a photo editing program (in my case Corel Photopaint on a
Mac), then exporting as .eps
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