Importing clear, sharp images

[Combs, Richard (CW)]

We’re talking about screen captures. Typical monitors display 96 pixels per inch, so you’re not “creating” something at 300 dpi. And you never want or need to downsample a screen capture.

I’ll repeat myself just one more time. Ignore “resolution.” Just look at the pixel dimensions of your screen capture. If it’s 1280 x 800 pixels, make sure it remains 1280 x 800 pixels. Period. Divide that 1280-pixel width by the width in inches that you want the graphic to take up in FM, and that’s the dpi you set at import.

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art Campbell
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Subject: Re: Importing clear, sharp images

That would sort of be my point. If you want to -- not have to -- you would create your gold copy of the graphic at say 300 DPI and downsample it automatically in Photoshop or simply adjust it to usable size when you import into FM since you specify the DPI during import.

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com<mailto:robert at lauriston.com>> wrote:
Setting the resolution in FrameMaker doesn't degrade the image, it
just changes its size. If you set a bitmap of a screen shot to 300
dpi, users might have to zoom in 4X to see it.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com<mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com>> wrote:
> If you use the screen resolution, they're all going to look like the dog was
> sick. John's recommendation for 160 DPI is about the minimum. If you're
> going to print, or expect your users to print PDFs, I'd go 240 or 300 DPI.
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