Re: Getting quality screen shots for documentation

Personally, I've never heard of this "Flare" (or, for that matter, of Madcap Software). My go-to software for manipulating image files (including taking screenshots) is the open source GIMP, and my typesetting software of first choice is good old fashioned Xerox Ventura Publisher (DOS/GEM Edition). ("Luddites of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your upgrade-treadmills!)

While it is not nearly as important as it once was (and I still remember a time when the best way to get decent screen shots for publication was to photograph a screen, on film, in a darkened room, and have whoever does your printing halftone the photographs and drop them in!), it is still preferable, when scaling images, to *stick to small-whole-number-ratios*

When I prep an image -- *any* image -- for use in Xerox Ventura Publisher, I *always* scale them to the desired size in GIMP, and then export them as EPS files, without "preview" bitmaps.

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JHHL