Re: AbiWord 2.2 Windows Screens

Excellent. I included the PSD files in case someone wanted to re-work the images, but I agree, PNG has some advantages over JPEG.

I am developing an AbiWord brochure as well. Once I complete it, I'll post it on ibiblio.

Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

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>
>On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 Sigmascape1@cs.com wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:12:09 -0500
>> From: Sigmascape1@cs.com
>> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
>> Subject: AbiWord 2.2 Windows Screens
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to the list.
>
>Welcome
>
>> I wanted to let you know that I have developed some screen shots of
>> AbiWord 2.2 working under Windows XP, and have posted them to my ibiblio
>> account.
>
>> All of them are print-friendly,
>
>I wouldn't know what printer unfriendly screenshots were :) but these look
>fairly good quality.  JPEG is not always the best format for screenshots,
>especially ones containing text but your are of high enough quality that
>the text looks nice and clear.
>
>When I'm making screenshots I usually use PNG (Portable Network Graphics
>format), and I also change the window title bar to use a solid colour
>rather than a gradient.  Depending on what is actually in the
>screenshot you can reduce the colours (using Indexed mode, and save as
>8-bit PNG) and get very small screenshots.
>
>I was able to convert this Jpeg format screenshot of Abiword
>http://www.ibiblio.org/sigmaman/software/Screens/AbiWord/abiword_2.2_print_screen_001.jpg
>to (indexed mode) PNG (full compression) and the file was only ~50k.
>(From that screenshot I can see you are using the same graphics
>manipulation program as I am).
>
>> and have been dedicated to the public domain, so you can use them any
>> way you wish.
>
>Very generous of you.  Thanks.
>
>If you are looking for other was to help out I'm sure we could suggest a
>few things: translations, articles or tutorials, sample documents,
>publicising abiword, tracking down obscure bugs and providing detailed
>descriptions is always helpful even programming if you are up for it.
>
>Thanks for getting involved and thanks for using Abiword.
>
>- Alan H.
>
>
>Screenshots of abiword on Windows XP
>http://www.ibiblio.org/sigmaman/software/Screens/AbiWord/
>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> MLF
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Received on Wed Dec 15 16:52:11 2004