[WinMac] RE: How I can get screen shots?
Parker, Douglas(douglas.parker[at]lmco.com)
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:14:29 -0400
Do your screen capture in black and white, not color.
Go to your Display control panel and set your display settings to High
Contrast White. This will set your screen colors to black and white. Then if
you import your screen shots into PhotoShop or some other image editor, you
can compress the image size by removing color information (setting the image
mode to bitmap). Regardless of number of images you intend to put in your
user guide, you'll have a *much* smaller document to carry around or send to
a printer at the end of your task. I've seen MS Word created user guides
that are 2-3MB huge due to the large number of color screen captures. It
just doesn't make sense to have the color--you're going to be sending it to
a black and white printer anyway!
If you do the screen capture in color and then reduce it to black and white,
you risk having colors map to white on white or black on black in some
areas, whereas the High Contrast White setting is designed to prevent that
from the beginning.
Doug
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> i need to make a new user guide, but I need some screen shots of my NT
> machine. How I can make screen shots or better only active windows shots
> on Win NT?
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