[clue-tech] screen shots

[Matt Gushee]

Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:56 -0700, Jeff Cann wrote:
>> 1.  How can I take a screen shot at a higher resolution?  For example, if my 
>> screen is 92 DPI and I want to print at 300 DPI, how can I grab a screen 
>> shot?  
> 
> You grab at the screen resolution then use Image->Scale to set the
> resolution to 300DPI.  Nothing changes in the visible document.  The DPI
> settings is used when you import, for example, into OpenOffice.  You
> should save these images as uncompressed TIFF files for best results and
> for widest support by tools which will do the imports later.

If I'm not mistaken, resolution settings are only stored in certain 
image formats: TIFF and EPS, certainly, which are desirable for print 
anyway. I don't think JPEG and PNG preserve that information.

-- 
Matt Gushee
The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/
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