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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Screen capturing on Retina Macs...
Date: 15 Oct 2015 20:58:17 GMT
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On 2015-10-15, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> On 10/15/15, 12:04 PM, in article d8abmmF4pccU1@mid.individual.net, "Jolly
> Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-10-15, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
>>>>> I noticed screen capturing on Retina Macs show very high resolutions and
>>>>> sizes. Is there a way not to have this big since I copy and paste them
>>>>> into documents, e-mails, etc. often?
>>> 
>>>> Easily resized via Preview|Tools.
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to resize in memory without saving as files? Like always
>>> set 50% of the screen captures I take? I usually screen capture and then
>>> paste directly into Word 2011 documents.
>> 
>> Nope. You'll have to take a screen shot to a file and resize it. Again,
>> this can easily be automated with tools built into OS X.
>> 
>> BTW, I'm not sure what your reasoning is behind pasting graphics into
>> Word documents; but you should know you may very well be making life
>> harder than need be for whoever you happen to be sending these Word
>> files to. Word screws up images pasted into Word documents such that it
>> is often impossible to get anything but a low-resolution copy of the
>> image out of the document, which can be especially bad if there is text
>> or other fine details in the image that someone needs to be able to read
>> easily. I hope you aren't using Word needlessly for this purpose.
>
> Good point. For some of my classes I have students send me screenshots...
> and some INSIST on doing it in a Word document no matter how much I tell
> them not to.

Yes, usually they are completely ignorant of the issue.

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