Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-19 Thread Peter Lairo
Sören Kuklau wrote: Why tend to GIF when you can use PNG :-) What are the technical differences between GIF and PNG? Feature: | GIF | PNG --- 32 bit | | 16 bit | | 8 bit | | compression | | others? | |

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-19 Thread Morten Nilsen
Peter Lairo wrote: Sören Kuklau wrote: Why tend to GIF when you can use PNG :-) What are the technical differences between GIF and PNG? Feature: | GIF | PNG --- 32 bit | | 16 bit | | 8 bit | | compression

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-19 Thread Peter Lairo
Morten Nilsen wrote: What are the technical differences between GIF and PNG? Two others: PNG: alpha channel GIF: bad licensing Please pardon my ignorance: What is alpha channel and how would it be useful or used? -- Regards, Peter Lairo

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-19 Thread Sören Kuklau
Peter Lairo wrote: Morten Nilsen wrote: What are the technical differences between GIF and PNG? Two others: PNG: alpha channel GIF: bad licensing Please pardon my ignorance: What is alpha channel and how would it be useful or used? Alpha defines whether a pixel in an image bitmap is

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-19 Thread Sören Kuklau
Peter Lairo wrote: Sören Kuklau wrote: Why tend to GIF when you can use PNG :-) What are the technical differences between GIF and PNG? Feature: | GIF | PNG --- 32 bit | | 16 bit | | 8 bit | | compression

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-17 Thread Christian Biesinger
Glenn Miller wrote: I mean, why doesn't Mozilla use GIFs in it's UI? It does use GIFs, though there's a bug for using PNGs. -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-16 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Neil M. wrote: The two programs I use for screen capture the Mac are SnapZ Pro, and Screen Catcher both can handle png. But Mac people tend to use jpeg/jpg, and gif. I have PhotoShop Lite Adobe recently named to it to something else. Why do you need a screen capture program? It's it

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-16 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Christopher Jahn wrote: And it came to pass that Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: Are you refering the use of Graphics period? Or the use of Gif? gif -- }:-) Christopher Jahn {:-( Dionysian Reveler A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-16 Thread Sören Kuklau
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: The two programs I use for screen capture the Mac are SnapZ Pro, and Screen Catcher both can handle png. But Mac people tend to use jpeg/jpg, and gif. I have PhotoShop Lite Adobe recently named to it to something else. I used to be a Mac guy (I'm not currently

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-16 Thread Sören Kuklau
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: Why do you need a screen capture program? It's it just apple+shift+f3? (That's just from memory... don't usually use macs. On windows it's alt-print screen for capturing the window and print screen for the entire screen) Because, as he pointed out, they do

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-15 Thread JTK
Christopher Jahn wrote: And it came to pass that Travis Crump wrote: Christopher Jahn wrote: up too much bandwidth, and few programs support .PNG. Isn't that sort of a mute point if you are planing to post the screen shot to bugzilla where your target audience would be using

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-15 Thread A Martinez
And about the format, I always use png for screen captures. You can use .gif as well, but please don't use jpg as it introduces noise and can meke the capture useless. WHAT??!?! jpg is the most widely supported format - GIF takes up too much bandwidth, and few programs support .PNG.

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-15 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Christopher Jahn wrote: And it came to pass that Travis Crump wrote: Christopher Jahn wrote: up too much bandwidth, and few programs support .PNG. Isn't that sort of a mute point if you are planing to post the screen shot to bugzilla where your target audience would be using

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-15 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Sören Kuklau wrote: Peter Lairo wrote: Hi, when i need to make a screenshot, I am always unsure as to which fileformat to save it to (gif, jpeg, png, etc.). Since screenshots are usually only a few colors (no photos in the shots), there must be some fileformat that keeps the

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-15 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: Christopher Jahn wrote: And it came to pass that Travis Crump wrote: Christopher Jahn wrote: up too much bandwidth, and few programs support .PNG. Isn't that sort of a mute point if you are planing to post the

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-15 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that A Martinez wrote: And about the format, I always use png for screen captures. You can use .gif as well, but please don't use jpg as it introduces noise and can meke the capture useless. WHAT??!?! jpg is the most widely supported format - GIF takes up too much

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-15 Thread Neil M.
The two programs I use for screen capture the Mac are SnapZ Pro, and Screen Catcher both can handle png. But Mac people tend to use jpeg/jpg, and gif. I have PhotoShop Lite Adobe recently named to it to something else. Why do you need a screen capture program? It's it just apple+shift+f3?

What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-14 Thread Peter Lairo
Hi, when i need to make a screenshot, I am always unsure as to which fileformat to save it to (gif, jpeg, png, etc.). Since screenshots are usually only a few colors (no photos in the shots), there must be some fileformat that keeps the filesize very small. Also, what pixel size should I

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-14 Thread A Martinez
Peter Lairo wrote: Hi, when i need to make a screenshot, I am always unsure as to which fileformat to save it to (gif, jpeg, png, etc.). Since screenshots are usually only a few colors (no photos in the shots), there must be some fileformat that keeps the filesize very small. Also,

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-14 Thread Travis Crump
Christopher Jahn wrote: up too much bandwidth, and few programs support .PNG. Isn't that sort of a mute point if you are planing to post the screen shot to bugzilla where your target audience would be using mozilla...

Re: What is best fileformat (and settings) for screenshots?

2002-02-14 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that Travis Crump wrote: Christopher Jahn wrote: up too much bandwidth, and few programs support .PNG. Isn't that sort of a mute point if you are planing to post the screen shot to bugzilla where your target audience would be using mozilla... The word is