Re: Importing clear, sharp images

My main monitors are just about 100 (top-of-the-line trailing-edge 1600x1200), but I've used from 65 (huge low-res display some moron bought scores of) to 220 (MacBook with Retina display, so basically equivalent to 110 in normal mode) in recent years. LCDs keep getting higher resolution. On Fr

Re: Importing clear, sharp images

On 2015-Jun-18 6:47 PM, Combs, Richard (CW) wrote: Typical monitors display 96 pixels per inch Actually, that turns out not to be the case. If you measure the width and height of your display and divide your screen resolution by those numbers, you're more likely to get a number between 10

RE: Importing clear, sharp images

...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art Campbell Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 4:32 PM To: Robert Lauriston Cc: framers Subject: Re: Importing clear, sharp images That would sort of be my point. If you want to -- not have to -- you would create your gold copy of the graphic at say 300 DPI and downsample

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A screen shot doesn't have an intrinsic dpi. It's just a bitmap of a certain width and height. The image's dpi will vary depending on how many pixels per inch the screen it's displayed on has. I'm not sure there's ever a good reason to downsample a screen shot when you're placing it in FrameMaker

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That would sort of be my point. If you want to -- not have to -- you would create your gold copy of the graphic at say 300 DPI and downsample it automatically in Photoshop or simply adjust it to usable size when you import into FM since you specify the DPI during import. Art Campbell art

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Setting the resolution in FrameMaker doesn't degrade the image, it just changes its size. If you set a bitmap of a screen shot to 300 dpi, users might have to zoom in 4X to see it. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Art Campbell wrote: > If you use the screen resolution, they're all going to look l

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m:* Combs, Richard (CW) [richard.co...@polycom.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:24 PM > *To:* Tim Pann; framers > *Subject:* RE: Importing clear, sharp images > > Don’t resize your screen captures! Save as PNG exactly as captured. > When you import them into FM

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PNG is a good choice for all bitmap images. It's lossless (no degradation) and has a complex compression algorithm that can do a good job with various kinds of images. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: > I only use PNG with screen captures ... the (

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t;> Output is PDF, and yes, my issue is with the finished product, not >> what I'm seeing on my computer screen. >> >> >> From: Shmuel [shmue...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:15 AM >> To: Tim Pann; framer

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Or just select the High Quality Print or Press Quality job options. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > If you're referencing PSD files using File > Import > File > by > Reference and the images do not look sharp in generated PDFs, look at > the image compression settings i

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If you're referencing PSD files using File > Import > File > by Reference and the images do not look sharp in generated PDFs, look at the image compression settings in FrameMaker's PDF job options. This is old but the settings were pretty much the same the last time I looked at them: http://lauris

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t;> Output is PDF, and yes, my issue is with the finished product, not what I'm >> seeing on my computer screen. >> >> >> From: Shmuel [shmue...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:15 AM >> To: Tim Pann; framer

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be - the dot pitch, as Fred pointed out. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Tim Pann Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 8:52 AM To: Shmuel; framers Subject: RE: Importing clear, sharp images Output is PDF, and yes, my issue is with the f

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l [shmue...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:15 AM > To: Tim Pann; framers > Subject: Re: Importing clear, sharp images > > Images often appear choppy in FrameMaker, but come out better in the PDF. > The way they look in FrameMaker is just like a preview. Is your output PDF,

RE: Importing clear, sharp images

Output is PDF, and yes, my issue is with the finished product, not what I'm seeing on my computer screen. From: Shmuel [shmue...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:15 AM To: Tim Pann; framers Subject: Re: Importing clear, sharp images Images often a

Re: Importing clear, sharp images

Images often appear choppy in FrameMaker, but come out better in the PDF. The way they look in FrameMaker is just like a preview. Is your output PDF, online help, or both? -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 18-Jun-15 12:10 AM, Tim Pan

Re: Importing clear, sharp images

If you have Illustrator objects embedded in PhotoShop images you're placing in FrameMaker, the latter may not be smart enough to render the Illustrator objects properly. If you export a PSD as PNG and place that in FrameMaker, and it works fine, then there's definitely something about the embeddin

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dspre...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 4:47 PM To: Tim Pann; John Sgammato Cc: framers Subject: Re: Importing clear, sharp images SnagIt can do all those things but not with the same flexibility one can get from using Illustrator, especially layers. Secondly, when you export the file

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. Imported graphic updates automatically, I don't have to re-save in another format, etc. From: David Spreadbury [dspre...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 4:27 PM To: John Sgammato; Tim Pann Cc: framers Subject: Re: Importing clear, sharp images And why even bring photoshop into t

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M To: John Sgammato; Tim Pann Cc: framers Subject: Re: Importing clear, sharp images And why even bring photoshop into the picture? SnagIt will capture and save as PNG directly. That will give you the same quality of captures as what the reader would see on the screen. No additional work required excep

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obert Lauriston; framers Subject: RE: Importing clear, sharp images For the PSD images I capture (SnagIt) the thing on the screen to clipboard and copy directly into Photoshop. So the source is definitely good. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [framers

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agIt. Is there any reason in the > current or any other context that I should spend the money to get the > latest version? > > > From: Tim Pann > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 4:06 PM > To: Robert Lauriston; framers > Subject: RE: Impor

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m] on behalf of Robert Lauriston [rob...@lauriston.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 3:18 PM To: framers Subject: Re: Importing clear, sharp images Are the PSD documents degraded in PDFs or only on screen in FrameMaker? If the former, I'd say export to PNG. Resizing in FrameMaker by changi

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[rob...@lauriston.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 3:18 PM To: framers Subject: Re: Importing clear, sharp images Are the PSD documents degraded in PDFs or only on screen in FrameMaker? If the former, I'd say export to PNG. Resizing in FrameMaker by changing DPI has no effect on

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Sean Brierley's document might help: -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To uns

Re: Importing clear, sharp images

Are the PSD documents degraded in PDFs or only on screen in FrameMaker? If the former, I'd say export to PNG. Resizing in FrameMaker by changing DPI has no effect on image resolution. On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Tim Pann wrote: > I'm using Frame 9 on Windows 7. And my apologies if this has

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th 0.25% (one part in 400) accuracy. -Fred Ridder From: tp...@telecomsys.com To: richard.co...@polycom.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Importing clear, sharp images Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:30:04 + OK this is very interesting. I was under the assumption that you should keep the

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he result, 160, and you should have a nice, sharp 6" wide screen shot in your doc. From: Tim Pann [mailto:tp...@telecomsys.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 3:30 PM To: Combs, Richard (CW); framers Subject: RE: Importing clear, sharp images OK this is very interesting. I was under the a

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g, since it's not > a simple factor of 72 or 144 or 300 etc. > > -- > *From:* John Sgammato [john.sgamm...@actifio.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:17 PM > *To:* Tim Pann > *Cc:* framers > *Subject:* Re: Importing clear, sharp images

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What's significant about the number 160? Just wondering, since it's not a simple factor of 72 or 144 or 300 etc. From: John Sgammato [john.sgamm...@actifio.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:17 PM To: Tim Pann Cc: framers Subject: Re: Importing cl

RE: Importing clear, sharp images

PM To: Tim Pann Cc: framers Subject: Re: Importing clear, sharp images I use SnagIt to capture all my images as PNGs, then I import by reference at 160dpi and they look great. On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Tim Pann mailto:tp...@telecomsys.com>> wrote: I'm using Frame 9 on Window

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, June 17, 2015 2:24 PM To: Tim Pann; framers Subject: RE: Importing clear, sharp images Don’t resize your screen captures! Save as PNG exactly as captured. When you import them into FM, specify the appropriate DPI setting to make them the size you want on the page. From: framers-boun

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Don't resize your screen captures! Save as PNG exactly as captured. When you import them into FM, specify the appropriate DPI setting to make them the size you want on the page. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Tim Pann Sent:

Re: Importing clear, sharp images

I use SnagIt to capture all my images as PNGs, then I import by reference at 160dpi and they look great. On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Tim Pann wrote: >I'm using Frame 9 on Windows 7. And my apologies if this has been > covered and answered. > > Can anyone point me toward a good resource