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RE: cross-platform screen shot resolutions

David Adams wrote:
>I'm producing a manual with screen shots taken on Windows and placed in
>Frame on a Mac. Windows uses 96dpi unlike the Mac's 72dpi. I get moires
when
>I scale the image to, for example, 64%. I am test printing at 1200 dpi
and
>will be doing the final printing at 1200 or 1270 dpi. Can anyone
suggest
>scaling factors that will produce attractive output?

and Larry Kollar said:
>Yeah, ***DON'T SCALE BITMAPS***.  That way lies madness.

and went on to recommend a dpi resolution based on printer output. 

I'll just note that I've been very happy using 288 dpi for my source
screen shots, no matter what the platform. 72x4=288; 96x3=288, and
PostScript laser printers since the first generation have included a 4%
scaling capability 
(72 dpi not being an even divider into 300 dpi).  288 works especially
well for PDFs.

Voila!

Deborah Snavely
Document Architect, Technical Publications, 
Aurigin Systems, Inc. http://www.aurigin.com/ 

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