Re: [flasher] Screen Capture Question

[John Dowdell]

At 12:24 PM 2/13/1, Terri Lisenby wrote:

>I am currently working on a project that requires a lot of screen captures

>of the software (boring I know, but that's what they want). Anyway, every

>time I import a screen (png format) and resize it to fit the stage it

>becomes unreadable.


That's because of the way screens are designed. Text and icons are designed

down to the pixel. If there's any resizing at all, or if a bitmap is placed

at a sub-pixel position, then you're asking the computer to interpolate new

pixels on the fly, and there will be blurring.


Screen captures are *extremely* resolution-dependent... much more so than

photographs or captured imagery. And in turn SWF is a purely

resolution-independent format. That's why you have to exercise such great

care to not resize at all.


(Easier to do a screen-cap demo in Director... it's fixed-res. Could also

do it in fixed-res QuickTime or such, but Director lets you use sprites

easily.)


jd







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