printing web pages
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- WildPony
Ok, is there any way to print screenshots of a website at 8x10 inches and make them look good?
I've tried resampling the 72dpi screenshots in photoshop with 'nearest neighbor' but it's still pretty blurry. Any tips?
- blastofv0
screenshots are low-res, nomatter how you spin it in photoshop... why do you need hi-res printouts of screenshots? Is it not an option to show on-screen?
- WildPony0
Yeah, I have to have a few pages from our site for an offline only presentation. I wish there was a trick besides making the screenshots 2x2 inches...
- ribit0
Are they really so bad? We often print our site pages at A4 and dont see a problem for the sort of reference use we need... no resampling.
Screenshots arent really 72dpi btw... (72dpi is a myth!) They are just not really big in terms of number of pixels...
- version30
actually in the print world
its no myth
- ribit0
but on the screen (and screenshots) it is a myth.
- thismanslife0
DPI only matters when you print something out. On screen, "I" (inches) is irrelevant since every screen will be different depending on the monitor size and resolution.
Regarding printing webpages... I print them as they are, blown up to whatever size needed, no resampling, ever.
Resampling just leaves them looking blurry.
Websites ARE made of pixels, so I dont worry about the pixels being clear when I print them.
- radar0
resolution is a myth, you can print screenshots as big as you want.
- ribit0
within reason... they may not have an intrinsic DPI to start with, but they usually arent that big (unless the website is real big)
- root_lock0
jack your screen res up to the highest , would work if you had a 22 inch crt.
then your screen shot would be
1792 by 1344
no?
or am i stupid
- ribit0
yep, but your website would still be say 700 pixels wide...
- thismanslife0
Haha. No.
A. The screen shot would be whatever res your monitor is set at, regardless of the monitors physical size.
B. At a high screen res the website would probably just be a small layout in the middle of a big full screen browser (unless it is fullscreen flash, which this method would actually work). All the graphics that make up the site would still be the same resolution (px X px) for an thml site.
:)
- radar0
send me $10 and I'll print your website for you.
- thismanslife0
Last comment aimed at root_lock
Oh and i meant "html" not thml
:-\
- root_lock0
ha...i am stupid... unless you had one of those liquid layouts.
lol
- thismanslife0
:)
- ********0
flashpaper isn't an option?
you get an SWF from it... maximise resolution make the window as big as it will go screenshot it and the print...
- rockonski0
nerds
- stevegee0
why notr get the original design file, PSD or AI and print that instead of a screen shot?
- kyl30
redesign the site in flash using only vector art, scale at will, take screen shot, post old site when your done. easy.
- aliceblue0
what about inside Acrobat
"create PDF from web page'or is this just complicating matters?