problem with image/screen resolution in E-Prime 1.2 / soft & unreadable type in image file

[Martin Smith-Rodden]

Hello -- 

We're stuck with an older version of E-Prime (1.2) in our lab. I'm using it 
for a lengthy reading comprehension procedure where participants view 
emulated webpages. Rather than use a mixture of elements and objects to 
construct the page in a slide (the use of large sections of type kept 
kicking the script size into being too large), my workaround was to 
construct the page as a Photoshop file with all the elements (including 
type) in the image. 


[image: 
https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?ui=2&ik=78b6d33057&view=att&th=139ccea0199f3564&attid=0.1&disp=inline&safe=1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P-CsHTWFlFt3ipMpJR18olp&sadet=1347762684830&sads=4OOfwdI8C6y_NJMTYpjYe-8RWik]

I smugly thought my workaround was a rather clever way to get around the 
script-size-problem, until we saw how the type rendered. Which is to say: *
HORRIBLY*. 
It came out looking very low in resolution, with some shadowing or 
"ghosting" in the letters. Clearly, that's problematic in a reading 
comprehension procedure. 

[image: 
https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?ui=2&ik=78b6d33057&view=att&th=139ccecc47151e4c&attid=0.1&disp=inline&safe=1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P-CsHTWFlFt3ipMpJR18olp&sadet=1347763071777&sads=IBIVAEictwzf00VdcWnbD39k_-E]

So, I "upped" the resolution of the .bmp image (1200 pixels wide) and it 
still looks low-rez. The images you're seeing here are actually the *high*-resolution 
version of my image. Adjustments and changes in the display device 
properties create other problems: the screen image goes way too small and 
the elements of certain slides show up having been moved in random 
directions. 

*Is there any solution to this (rather frustrating) issue within E-Prime 
1.2?*


Martin Smith-Rodden 
Graduate student, 
Applied Experimental Psychology Program
Old Dominion University, 
Norfolk, VA

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