Re: Getting quality screen shots for documentation

Hello James.

WooHoo another Ventura Publisher user!!!

I have a lot of documentation, user guides, manuals, etcetera in Ventura
but sadly I can't get it to run on any current versions of Windows.

Can I ask what you are running it on and any problems ?

Thanks

Don





From: "James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L"
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Date: 24/05/2023 01:25 AM
Subject: Re: Getting quality screen shots for documentation
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Personally, I've never heard of this "Flare" (or, for that matter, of
Madcap Software). My go-to software for manipulating image files
(including taking screenshots) is the open source GIMP, and my
typesetting software of first choice is good old fashioned Xerox Ventura
Publisher (DOS/GEM Edition). ("Luddites of the World Unite! You have
nothing to lose but your upgrade-treadmills!)

While it is not nearly as important as it once was (and I still remember
a time when the best way to get decent screen shots for publication was
to photograph a screen, on film, in a darkened room, and have whoever
does your printing halftone the photographs and drop them in!), it is
still preferable, when scaling images, to *stick to
small-whole-number-ratios*

When I prep an image -- *any* image -- for use in Xerox Ventura
Publisher, I *always* scale them to the desired size in GIMP, and then
export them as EPS files, without "preview" bitmaps.

--
JHHL