[thelist] Getting screenshots to look good in Word (and then PDF)

ben morrison morrison.ben at gmail.com
Fri Mar 31 08:24:03 CST 2006


On 3/31/06, Rob <sendrobstuff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Long time lurker, first time poster. I'm trying to get a screenshot of
> a webpage to look decent within a PDF. Taking screenshots, saving as
> GIF, inserting into Word to add other guff, then printing to PDF. As
> soon as they hit Word they look pretty awful though, and then printing
> to PDF the quality is reduced even further (using both PrimoPDF and
> CutePDF).
>

i've found that i get best results with using PNG in Word/Powerpoint
and depending on the type of image I often have the original larger
and use it about 70% in word etc. Its all a bit trial and error
though.

Ben



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