Best format for screen shots?

Andre Garzia soapdog at mac.com
Sun Jul 11 16:16:43 EDT 2004


Also, there's a pluging for the Rev IDE to take screenshots... cool!

:D

I normally use Snapz PRO... it's amazing, can even record movies of the 
screen ideal for tutorials, like chipp layout manager tutorial.




On Jul 11, 2004, at 11:07 AM, Bob Hartley wrote:

> At 13:58 11/07/2004, you wrote:
>
> Hi Paul.
>
>> I am writing the operating manual for our first Revolution-based 
>> product and
>> I could use some knowledgeable advice regarding screen shots.
>
>
> OK I'll try my best
>
>
>> In the past I saved screenshots as PICT files and copied them into 
>> Word. I
>> printed the Word doc to QuickDraw and Postscript printers.
>>
>> This time I will also be making PDFs for cross-platform distribution. 
>> Since
>> PICT is a Mac-only format, would EPS (or some other format) be better?
>
> Ahh I was under the impression that the image was converted on 
> creating the pdf. However, I normally use tiff for high quality images 
> or a simple 95% jpeg for manuals.
>
>
> If you want to test you could send me a snippet and I'll look at it on 
> my PC.
>
> Send it to r.hartley at bio.gla.ac.uk I have a 100Mb line so size is not 
> a problem.
>
>
> cheers
> bob
>
>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Paul Looney
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