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I can speak to only your first question. Help & Manual enables me to
generate on-line help that displays an image at 75% (or whatever % I
choose) of its original size AND, when clicked, displays the image at
its full size. I'm not sure how this would work with callouts.
Leonard
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Subject: Re: "usable" screen captures
Do any of you regularly reduce the size of your screenshots? I usually
reduce all my screenshots to 75% of their original size. This allows me
to
capture a width of 700 px rather than 525 px, which gives more context
to
what I'm pointing out. After I capture at a width of 700, reducing it by
75%
changes it to 525 px, which fits into my printed manual's margins.
However, I've noticed that resizing in Word or InDesign results in a
much
crisper image than resizing in SnagIt or Photoshop. So for my printed
images, I resize them in Word using a macro. However, this technique
makes
callouts difficult, because text that is resized never quite looks as
clear
to me as the original size. As a result, I use captions much more than
callouts. If I do use callouts, I don't resize anything.
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