Alan Litchfield wrote:
... There is no value that I see in trying to dictate to the reader what they will see at any specified zoom. The reader will decide what is `good enough' for their viewing pleasure. ...
Forcing a specific zoom (related to the DPI value at which the screen captures are placed in FM) is indeed not practical, especially since readers can easily switch between view settings of Fit Page, Fit Width etc. (that result in different zoom levels in different computers/screens).
However, this variable zoom effectively guarantees that the rendering of screen captures will be suboptimal, with different levels of distortion (missing pixels and/or blurred display). This is not a problem when the PDF is primarily intended for print purposes, but many PDFs are primarily used on-screen (even when the intended use is print, e.g. to benefit from interactivity/search).
No easy solutions, unfortunately. Displaying the screen capture without any distortion is possible through "off-page" display -- see different examples at http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF29.html .
[ The same issue applies directly to the display of SWF screen movies (where FM8/9/10 only support in-document placement; distortion of movie display in the PDF is practically guaranteed), see comparison of playback modes at http://www.microtype.com/showcase/MultimediaAsst/PlaybackModes.pdf or http://www.microtype.com/showcase/MultimediaAsst/PlaybackModes-Native.pdf , Acrobat/Reader 9 or higher ]
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