On Wednesday 05 January 2005 23:45, David Christian Berg wrote: > > Any tips on preparing screenshots for print? I want my books to look top > > notch. Currently, I do the screen capture with GIMP, change the image > > mode to greyscale, then use the scaling window in GIMP to change the > > graphic to 300x300 DPI, then I rescale the size of the picture. It looks > > fuzzy on the screen (in Scribus), but when I print it on my 600 dpi laser > > it looks good. > > > > >From GIMP, I save the screen catpures as TIFF for use in Scribus. > > What I'd do ist just capture the screen, convert it to grayscale (both > using the Gimp) and save it in a folder. Then import it in Scribus. This > is where you scale the picture to the size you need in your document and > get the right clipping.
You should really be setting the DPI in Gimp. Scribus will scale appropriately on import. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050105/c0665379/attachment.pgp
