David Gillen said:
An noise sounding like Dylan Parry said:
Hitting print screen is NOT copying the image. It is creating a new image,
from a tabular representation of the image.
As others have pointed out, this is not a good argument. The
screen shot is copying the pixels, the "camera" is not that up
with html table knowledge! I told a story once here about how a
screen shot (surprisingly) gave me information about something I
did not see when creating the pic.
Look, why don't I quote my immortal words?: [1]
BTW, screen snapping is not something to be sneezed at as some
low rent way of capturing. I was surprised recently (but not
flabbergasted) by the way it picks up things that are not
necessarily evident to the eye on the screen it is snapped at. I
do design work for printing and use screenshots a lot to show
clients the artwork (they often have trouble viewing the actual
Illustrator files...). I picked up a fault in the art work via
the screenshot recently in a surprising manner:
Snapped the art layout, I have it in png format at the moment. I
dragged this png to Fireworks and exported it to a gif (it was
the most economical format for communication in this instance).
Low and behold, there was a ghastly rectangular ghost of a pale
background to one small element in the artwork. I thought I had
matched that background to that element (a placed pic prepared in
Photoshop) exactly to the general background but no! On
re-examining the Illustrator file at great magnification, the
fault became evident and may have printed as such!
