Importing clear, sharp images

[Tim Pann]

OK this is very interesting. I was under the assumption that you should keep the resolution of the picture at the resolution of the screen, and then import it in also at that resolution. I was not aware that changing the import resolution was advisable.

Off top of my head this seems like it would be difficult to get just the right resolution on the first try giving a particular anchored frame size. Do you have some clever method for getting the resolution right the first time?

Tim
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From: Combs, Richard (CW) [Richard.Combs at 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, specify the appropriate DPI setting to make them the size you want on the page.

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Tim Pann
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 3:11 PM
To: framers
Subject: Importing clear, sharp images

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 (or just tell me if it's quick) for understanding how to get nice sharp images imported by reference in FrameMaker? I'm working on a doc right now in which I'm mostly importing PSD files. They're all screen captures of a user interface. I have to resize most of them and they're looking pretty choppy. I switched to a TIF image for one and that didn't help.

I know that TIFF is the preferred format (not sure about PSD but many of my PSD imports look nice) but I don't know if there are specific guidelines or recommendations about resolution, resizing once imported, etc.

I'm happy to provide more information about what I'm doing if needed. No idea what's relevant and what's not.

Thank you,
Tim

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