>Yes, I always do screenshots in GIF. The advantage of that is that I can manipulate the graphic and save it again without loosing quality. In JPG, you need to have the original base file and save it from that into a JPG in order to keep the same quality. Saving a JPG over a JPG decreases the quality of the image. We have the problem with our magazine. Sometimes, writers send us JPG files. This is a nightware to deal with that. As I always have to edit those pictures, it doesn't provide us flexiblity. In some occasions, I had to play pixel by pixel to readjust some thing in it.
I see. Well, the JPG is supposed to specify saving a file "loss-less", but most programs don't support this option for some reason.
In that case, it seems more convenient to send a compressed (ZIP) BMP file.
As to screenshots with GIF: at least with the screenshot utility that comes with the HTML Help Workshop, I found that I had to set the monitor to 256 color before taking the screenshot. Otherwise, the quality would be inacceptable.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
