Comments for ScreenSteps Blog http://screensteps.com/blog Information on ScreenSteps and ScreenSteps Live Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:16:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on ScreenSteps Live API Beta by gregdevore http://screensteps.com/blog/2008/07/screensteps-live-api-beta/#comment-135 gregdevore Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:10:56 +0000 http://screensteps.com/blog/?p=208#comment-135 <p>Your API key is what is used to authenticate you when accessing the API. You do not use your username and password. Only Administrators on your account have access to your API key and it should be kept secret since it is like your account password. To see more information about how the API key is used to authenticate requests you can see the <a href="http://screensteps.com/blog/2008/07/the-screensteps-live-api-developer-guide/" rel="nofollow">creenSteps Live Developer's Guide</a>. Does that answer your question?</p> Your API key is what is used to authenticate you when accessing the API. You do not use your username and password. Only Administrators on your account have access to your API key and it should be kept secret since it is like your account password. To see more information about how the API key is used to authenticate requests you can see the creenSteps Live Developer’s Guide. Does that answer your question?

]]> Comment on ScreenSteps Live API Beta by Didier http://screensteps.com/blog/2008/07/screensteps-live-api-beta/#comment-130 Didier Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:57:31 +0000 http://screensteps.com/blog/?p=208#comment-130 <p>How do you give the login to your screenstepslive account if it requires one ?</p> <p>:-?</p> <p>Didier</p> How do you give the login to your screenstepslive account if it requires one ?

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Didier

]]> Comment on ScreenSteps 2.1 Public Beta: Post to Blog by ylmz http://screensteps.com/blog/2008/04/screensteps-21-public-beta-post-to-blog/#comment-124 ylmz Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:36:31 +0000 http://screensteps.com/blog/?p=117#comment-124 <p>I love it!</p> I love it!

]]> Comment on Posting to Drupal by Posting to Drupal http://screensteps.com/blog/2008/07/posting-to-drupal/#comment-123 Posting to Drupal Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:53:00 +0000 http://screensteps.com/blog/?p=207#comment-123 <p>[...] Go to the author’s original blog: Posting to Drupal [...]</p> [...] Go to the author’s original blog: Posting to Drupal [...]

]]> Comment on Simplify Your Documentation by Richard McLaughlin http://screensteps.com/blog/2008/07/simplify-your-documentation/#comment-119 Richard McLaughlin Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:07:25 +0000 http://screensteps.com/blog/?p=168#comment-119 <p>I followed a link from Ed Rivis, the poster just before me, to your site. Great product, I am getting ready to start documenting something and will give your free download version a run.</p> I followed a link from Ed Rivis, the poster just before me, to your site. Great product, I am getting ready to start documenting something and will give your free download version a run.

]]> Comment on Simplify Your Documentation by Ed http://screensteps.com/blog/2008/07/simplify-your-documentation/#comment-118 Ed Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:11:02 +0000 http://screensteps.com/blog/?p=168#comment-118 <p>A great approach to creating manuals -- and also to creating standalone information products like ebooks as well! Thanks.</p> A great approach to creating manuals — and also to creating standalone information products like ebooks as well! Thanks.

]]> Comment on Simplify Your Documentation by Glen Saville http://screensteps.com/blog/2008/07/simplify-your-documentation/#comment-117 Glen Saville Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:57:42 +0000 http://screensteps.com/blog/?p=168#comment-117 <p>Excellent tutorial, really useful!</p> Excellent tutorial, really useful!

]]> Comment on Simplify Your Documentation by Bill Leddy http://screensteps.com/blog/2008/07/simplify-your-documentation/#comment-116 Bill Leddy Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:04:48 +0000 http://screensteps.com/blog/?p=168#comment-116 <p>Terrific! Thanks for sharing this great approach.</p> <p>Bill</p> Terrific! Thanks for sharing this great approach.

Bill

]]> Comment on New ScreenSteps 2.1 Public Beta by trevordevore http://screensteps.com/blog/2008/06/new-screensteps-21-public-beta/#comment-94 trevordevore Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:06:12 +0000 http://screensteps.com/blog/?p=122#comment-94 <p>When you open the PDF with the Google logo in Preview select "Actual Size" from the contextual menu that appears if you right-click within the viewing area. Your image should then display at the same size as it appears on the Google website. Oddly enough selecting "Actual Size" from the View menu does not give the same result.</p> When you open the PDF with the Google logo in Preview select “Actual Size” from the contextual menu that appears if you right-click within the viewing area. Your image should then display at the same size as it appears on the Google website. Oddly enough selecting “Actual Size” from the View menu does not give the same result.

]]> Comment on New ScreenSteps 2.1 Public Beta by George Andrews http://screensteps.com/blog/2008/06/new-screensteps-21-public-beta/#comment-88 George Andrews Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:41:53 +0000 http://screensteps.com/blog/?p=122#comment-88 <p>Quote: "Images in PDF output are no longer fuzzy at actual size."</p> <p>Interestingly, I saw no improvement from the current release version to the beta. Here is my test: I opened Google in Safari (I'm on a Mac) and captured the logo and search box using your tool. I also made a copy using Grab and pasted it into Preview. I saved a PDF from ScreenSteps and saved a similar PDF from Preview.</p> <p>In both cases, the image displays larger than the original--even when actual size or 100% is specified. The images can be reduced to approximate the original size, but the degradation of the image, especially the smaller type, is still quite noticeable.</p> <p>I didn't try taking the screen capture through Adobe Acrobat to see what quality I could get there. I did try viewing both test files in both Preview and Adobe Reader. I could live with a bit of fuzziness if the size stayed correct. Google's usual logo is 276 X 110 pixels. The PDF version seems to be about 30% to 40% larger.</p> <p>While the logo was on the clipboard, I pasted it into a new MS Word document and saw the same resizing issue when I saved it as a PDF. I'm guessing this is some common library call to generate PDF output that everyone uses that's wonky. Saving the document in native word format and re-opening it returns a perfect replica of the original screen grab.</p> <p>Bottom line: PDF as a format seems to have some unexpected (to me anyway) limitations.</p> Quote: “Images in PDF output are no longer fuzzy at actual size.”

Interestingly, I saw no improvement from the current release version to the beta. Here is my test: I opened Google in Safari (I’m on a Mac) and captured the logo and search box using your tool. I also made a copy using Grab and pasted it into Preview. I saved a PDF from ScreenSteps and saved a similar PDF from Preview.

In both cases, the image displays larger than the original–even when actual size or 100% is specified. The images can be reduced to approximate the original size, but the degradation of the image, especially the smaller type, is still quite noticeable.

I didn’t try taking the screen capture through Adobe Acrobat to see what quality I could get there. I did try viewing both test files in both Preview and Adobe Reader. I could live with a bit of fuzziness if the size stayed correct. Google’s usual logo is 276 X 110 pixels. The PDF version seems to be about 30% to 40% larger.

While the logo was on the clipboard, I pasted it into a new MS Word document and saw the same resizing issue when I saved it as a PDF. I’m guessing this is some common library call to generate PDF output that everyone uses that’s wonky. Saving the document in native word format and re-opening it returns a perfect replica of the original screen grab.

Bottom line: PDF as a format seems to have some unexpected (to me anyway) limitations.

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