<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">You can always downsample; going up is more problematic. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">If you're using Photoshop, which I think you are given your reference to PSDs, set up an action to resize (if needed using the Save For Web option). Also, look at Dr. Brown's Image Processor Pro, which will save out to multiple formats, sizes and resolutions with one click.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">AND -- IMPORTANT -- make sure you turn off downsampling graphics when you create PDFs, or you'll be looking at the same problem again -- grainy fuzzy jpgs in the PDF.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Art Campbell <a href="mailto:art.campbell@gmail.com" target="_blank">art.campbell@gmail.com</a><br> "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson<br> No disclaimers apply.<br> DoD 358<br><br>I support <a href="http://www.TheGrotonLine.com" target="_blank">www.TheGrotonLine.com</a>, hyperlocal news for Groton MA.</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Tim Pann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:TPann@telecomsys.com" target="_blank">TPann@telecomsys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;font-size:10pt">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.
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<div>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?</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 17, 2015 3:11 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Importing clear, sharp images</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">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.</span></p>
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