On 6/17/06,
Paul Smith <
phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6/16/06, Jacques B. <jjrboucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Have you tried the Gimp? It has the ability to acquire a screen shot and
> then you save it in the format you wish (within the limitation of the
> software of course)?
I have just tried that, but getting a TIF image with resolution 72 x 72 dpi.
Paul
Are you saving it with compression? I just tried it on my PC with my screen resolution set at 1024 x 768. I acquired the screen with the Gimp, saved it as a .tiff file with no compression. I then opened that image and the properties were 1024 x 768, with a resolution of 76 X 72 dpi. Still pretty lame, but a bit better. I read before that for an image to look reasonable on screen it only needs a resolution of about 75 dpi. That would explain why a screen capture would likely only result in approx. that resolution. I suspect that you'd need one huge monitor to display something 300 x 300 dpi within the screen (short of a pretty small picture I guess). That is probably where Chris was going with his suggestion. I just ramped up my screen resolution to 1280 x 800 and the resulting screen capture was 119 x 112 dpi. So ramp that up as high as your card & monitor will support and give that a try.
Jacques B.
