Importing clear, sharp images

[John Sgammato]

The images align with the text and are still clear. I remember years ago I
had to use multiples of 4, but now 150, 160, and 180 look equally good
depending on what i am showing.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Tim Pann <TPann at telecomsys.com> wrote:

>  What's significant about the number 160? Just wondering, since it's not
> a simple factor of 72 or 144 or 300 etc.
>
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> *From:* John Sgammato [john.sgammato at actifio.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:17 PM
> *To:* Tim Pann
> *Cc:* framers
> *Subject:* Re: Importing clear, sharp images
>
>   I use SnagIt to capture all my images as PNGs, then I import by
> reference at 160dpi and they look great.
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Tim Pann <TPann at telecomsys.com> wrote:
>
>>    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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