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Ideally, you should not resize screenshots if you can
avoid it, because rasterized screen text scales badly.
Better to determine what size you want the shot to be
and then resize the display of the system you take
the screenshots on to suit, as GUIs change screen
fonts to suit a selected resolution.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Tom Johnson" <tomjohnson1492 -at- gmail -dot- com>
> 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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