Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-06 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Always use the full resolution of a screen dump. Screendumps usually > prints with visible pixels, and scaling them in gimp will always make that > much worse. Using the full resolution gives the best possible result, > the only possible downside being

Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Georg Baum wrote: It probably took the 100dpi from your X setup. Actually, when I looked more closely, the X and Y resolution of the image was 1 dpi, with a scaling factor of 100. It was invisible in the pdflatex output. When I scaled the resoluti

Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-04 Thread Sara Stymne
Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: "Sara Stymne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 1:50 PM Subject: Re: Screen Captures in Documents Hi! I have no solution, but a related problem... In LyX I canot use insert->graphics fro

Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-04 Thread Sara Stymne
Hi! I have no solution, but a related problem... In LyX I canot use insert->graphics from the menu. I think this is because LyX uses the graphics package and that it somehow conflicts with the gb4e package that I also use. When I remove gb4e graphic-insertion seems to work, but not the gb4e-s

Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Georg Baum wrote: Am Samstag, 4. Februar 2006 18:41 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: how do you crop them away? (e.g. eps-file). Do you do it in the eps description of the file or do you use a program? And which one? When I need to crop white borders of eps files, I usually run them through

Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-04 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 4. Februar 2006 18:41 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: > how do you crop them away? > (e.g. eps-file). Do you do it in the eps description of the file or do you use > a program? And which one? When I need to crop white borders of eps files, I usually run them through pstoepsi, or use the

Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Georg Baum wrote: It probably took the 100dpi from your X setup. Actually, when I looked more closely, the X and Y resolution of the image was 1 dpi, with a scaling factor of 100. It was invisible in the pdflatex output. When I scaled the resolution to 200 dpi in the GIMP

Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-04 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 4. Februar 2006 18:37 schrieb Rich Shepard: >This is really strange. When I look at the screenshot attributes in The > GIMP, I see that it's 100 dpi resolution and 800-something pixels wide. It probably took the 100dpi from your X setup. > The > image imports into the document a

Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-04 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 4. Februar 2006 18:23 schrieb Rich Shepard: >Thanks, Georg. I considered doing that but the large size of the images in > the LyX document prompted me to shrink them before hand. You can adjust the onscreen display to 30% or something like that in the graphics dialog. Or did you

Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Samstag, 4. Februar 2006 18:23 schrieb Rich Shepard: > On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Georg Baum wrote: > > I would not scale the image. The dimensions of the screenshot in inch > > don't matter at all, what matters is the number of pixels, and that is > > predetermined by the window you want to capture. Y

Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Georg Baum wrote: I would not scale the image. The dimensions of the screenshot in inch don't matter at all, what matters is the number of pixels, and that is predetermined by the window you want to capture. You can do the final scaling in LyX, this is often preferable, becau

Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Georg Baum wrote: I would not scale the image. The dimensions of the screenshot in inch don't matter at all, what matters is the number of pixels, and that is predetermined by the window you want to capture. You can do the final scaling in LyX, this is often preferable, becau

Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-04 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 4. Februar 2006 17:58 schrieb Rich Shepard: >A document requires screen shots as illustrations. I've used The GIMP to > capture the window, scaled the result to 100 pixels/inch resolution, and a > size of 4 inches wide. Then it's saved as a .png file. The document will > almost ce