Re: AW: (LET ME RESTATE: Re: Screen capture, display properties, CMYK printing

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

4-bit, indexed RGB color (16 shades) is hardly sufficient to represent
the colors in typical screen shots unless you have very, very plain
and boring screens to show. Even 16 levels of gray is insufficient.
8-bit (256 colors) is quite marginal for color work but quite acceptable
for grayscale. 16-bit RGB is the minimum normally considered acceptable
for color work.

        - Dov

At 2/18/2002 01:23 AM, Reng, Winfried wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> Display is RGB. Always RGB. When you print PostScript
>> from FrameMaker in Windows, anything except EPS is
>> converted to RGB.
>> 
>> Thus, do this: use 24-bit color on your desktop and
>> capture the image as a 24-bit TIFF. Use Adobe
>> Photoshop to convert the 24-bit TIFF to CMYK and EPS.
>> See http://www.pubsink.com/Screen_Captures_101.pdf for
>> more information on creating EPS files of screen
>> captures. Then, import the CMYK EPS screen captures by
>> reference into FrameMaker and you're off.
>
>I agree with everything you wrote. However I cannot find
>any reason why I should set my desktop to 24-bit-color.
>A screenshot needs only a few colors. 16 is sufficient!
>So my desktop setting is 256 colors. First I save as BMP
>(for use in Winhelp) and then convert this to CMYK and
>save as EPS. The color changes are minimal.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Winfried


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