RE: Capturing display file images for documentation

Martin; it appears using .PNG is a big step forward; your site's screen
shots are sharp and small.  I've just changed my output on both SnagIt and
ScreenPrint to .PNG and I'll start testing this weekend. 

Thanks,
Reeve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Rowe
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:21 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Capturing display file images for documentation
> 
> On Thursday 15 July 2004 19:39, Reeve wrote:
> > I'm trying to capture display file images with "real" data for
> > documentation.  My results are lousy: the JPG images, when pasted
> into a
> > Word document, look pasty (slightly fuzzy) even though they're 200K
> or
> > more.
> 
> Hi Reeve
> 
> 200K seems pretty big, but I guess that depends on the resolution. If
> you
> have a look at an example of the screenshots I use on my site -
> http://www.dbg400.net/pngindex.html - you'll see they appear sharp,
> but
> are, on average, less than 20K. The main difference is they are .png
> (Portable Network Graphic) images, not .jpg. For simple images (not
> complex
> photographs) png images seem to be much better for both size & clarity.
> The
> equivalent jpg screenshots - http://www.dbg400.net/jpgindex.html -
> tend to
> be around 2-4 times the size, and look dull by comparison.
> 
> > Client Access uses the IBM3270 font (8 x 18).  I'm using both
> ScreenPrint
> > Platinum 4.8 and SnagIt 7 to capture the images: they're both good
> > products, although SnagIt appears to have more tools.  I'm not using
> > progressive encoding on ScreenPrint.
> 
> I used the GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) to capture the
> screenshots,
> which is also available for Windows if your two apps can't (easily)
> convert
> to png. http://www.gimp.org/windows/ and follow the Jernej Simoncic
> link to
> http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/
> 
> Regards, Martin
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