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Subject:screen capture size From:"Mark L. Levinson" <mark -at- MEMCO -dot- CO -dot- IL> Date:Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:46:26 +0200
Kimber asks:
What is the prevailing sentiment regarding the size of screen captures
in an 8.5 x 11" document? Obviously, 100% of actual is far too large.
** Well, nothing is obvious. If you're dealing with a small section
of the screen and detail is very important, you may want 100%.
If sometimes you want to show the whole screen and sometimes you
want to show only sections of the screen, then you may want to
use two or three different magnifications. But I would recommend
against using too many different magnifications, lest the book
begin to look like a bad 3D movie.
Too high a magnification will make the document look childish,
but at too low a magnification the illustration may be hard to
understand.
That's the prevailing sentiment among, er, me.
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