Help! Screen shots look awful in PDF

[dtper]

No matter what program I use, Frame, Word, Quark, InDesign, when I try to PDF a page with a screen shot, the screen shot looks awful.

Is there a trick to saving the screen shot in a specific format to make it look clear when it appears in a PDF file?

 

[fizzak]

Screen shots are 72 dpi, so if Distiller is distilling at a higher res, your screen shot will look muddy. Adjust the Distiller Job options to 72dpi and see what happens.

 

[dtper]

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that, and screen shots still look muddy when attempting to PDF. I wonder if there's a tool out there that makes screen captures look cleaner, or if screen captures need to be saved to a certain kind of format to look nice in PDF?

 

[MarcusStringer]

Screen shots are always going to look like crap.
Try using a program to encrease the resolution like Spline, or you could use Photoshop and encrease it by 10% at a time untill you reach 300dpi....

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[rhoneyfi]

I'm pretty new at using acrobat, but if you go into File, Print, Choose 'Acrobat Distiller', then Properties. Select the Adobe PDF Setting Tab and then click 'Edit Conversion Settings'. Then choose the 'Compression" tab and here is where you can change the quality of the color image. I did my screenshots as Maximum quality and they look great...it makes the file size bigger though