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Use non-Retina resolution to avoid needing to downsample screenshots #3

Closed ryandesign closed 2 years ago

ryandesign commented 2 years ago

Fantastic project! Thanks for sharing. Loved reading your write-up.

You spent some time talking about using GraphicsMagick to downsample Retina-resolution (pixel-doubled) Mini vMac screenshots. (Its cousin ImageMagick is another choice.) Wanted to let you know you can avoid the need for that step by setting your screen to a non-Retina (non-HiDPI) resolution prior to making the screenshots using a utility such as RDM. Or connect an external non-Retina display to your computer and drag the Mini vMac window onto that display before screenshotting it.

EngineersNeedArt commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the suggestions. I did see ImageMagick as well as GraphicsMagick. I am not sure what the difference it, why I went with GraphicsMagick. Still, having dipped my toe in using it, I suspect it will come in handy in the future for other tasks (where using a non-Retina display with Mini vMac would not be the solution, ha ha).

Always Be Learning. (Always Be Iterating is actually my motto.)