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I'd like to know how to scale down large screen captures and maintain a good
resolution. Some of the screens I'm capturing take up most of the display
area of a 17" monitor, and when captured as is won't fit on a manual page
without resizing, which then decreases the resolution and makes them
difficult to read online in PDF format, especially on-screen text.
I'm using xv to capture the screens on a Unix box. After capturing I can use
xv's image size command to resize to 50%, but this has the same effect as
resizing in Framemaker (poor resolution).
Any ideas on how to get better captures? Will saving as another graphics
format help? (I've tried gif and tiff). I have PSP 5 and Visio available for
working with image files...also let me know if there are other tools that
can help with this.
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Michael Collier Phone: 512-835-3408
Information Systems Laboratory FAX: 512-490-4254
ARL Office: AX207
University of Texas at Austin email: mcollier -at- arlut -dot- utexas -dot- edu
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