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

[Alphonse Stickle]

perhaps to look closely more at photoshop construction for of the bitmap?

At 12:56 PM 16/09/2012, you wrote:
>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.
>
>
>https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?u
>
>
>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.
>
>https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?u
>
>
>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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>Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="photo(1).JPG"
>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="photo(1).JPG"
>X-Attachment-Id: 025b81af-211c-4dac-83ca-f248acc4e3ce
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>Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="photo(2).JPG"
>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="photo(2).JPG"
>X-Attachment-Id: 6c15ce2b-0b17-4258-8f56-ed61c6b0947b

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