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hajime

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Jul 23, 2007
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Hi, I took a screenshot of my iPad when I viewed an ebook. However, the text looked blur. Is there a way to make it sharp?
 
I'm guessing it's vector vs raster. When you screen shot the image, it gets saved as a bitmap image of the screen at the time of screen cap. I bet it looks good at 100% zoom but looks fuzzy at higher magnification, right?

There is a PhotoShop trick of using Unsharp Mask, but all that really does is increase the contrast between adjacent pixels. Overly aggressive use makes the picture a lot worse. You can always increase the font size in the ebook and down sample the screen shot to the size you need.
 
If you're in Books, you can use "share" - I just shared to Notability and it exported as a PDF. That will look sharp.
 
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