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Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:43:20 +0100, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:
>
> >>>>> Rick Umali <rgu@TheWorld.com>:
>
> > I captured the screen shots into Paint Shop Pro, and saved the
> > images directly to JPG. I didn't save them into BMP, unfortunately.
>
> Once you have saved them as JPEGs, the blurring has already occurred.
>
> What happens is that sharp transitions are blurred because of the
> quantization done by the JPEG algorithm. Basically, the high
> frequency components in the image are chopped away.
May I suggest the use of Irfan view ( http://www.irfanview.com/ ).
It is a freeware, It can capture the whole screen (or a window) and
save it in many formats (including png).
Ehud.
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