Currently using Journal to sketch out design specs for web and software projects. I'm finding it confusing for my customers to send them the "Web Archive" file but it's the only way I've found to maintain the color and resolution. I exported to TIF but it lost all the colors I had used. I "printed" to PDF Distiller using 5.0 and the resolution of the ink was just horrible.

Does Acrobat 6 print Journal files better? Is there a way to export Journal notes to Word? I'd like some format that maintained the resolution and color of Journal but in a more distributable format. Having my customers install Journal Viewer isn't a satisfactory solution.

"Jimmy Flannigan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Currently using Journal to sketch out design specs for web and software
> projects. I'm finding it confusing for my customers to send them the "Web
> Archive" file but it's the only way I've found to maintain the color and
> resolution. I exported to TIF but it lost all the colors I had used. I
> "printed" to PDF Distiller using 5.0 and the resolution of the ink was
> just horrible.

Is there anything that is especially confusing about the web archive files?
They are easily opened in IE and offer paging support.

If you open the Web archive in IE and save it as a regular Web thicket, then
you can recover the embedded images by renaming the appropriate files as GIF
or PNG.

> Does Acrobat 6 print Journal files better? Is there a way to export
> Journal notes to Word? I'd like some format that maintained the
> resolution and color of Journal but in a more distributable format.
> Having my customers install Journal Viewer isn't a satisfactory solution.

The Acrobat version won't make much difference until Adobe supports ink
natively. Acrobat doesn't understand beziers, only cruder polylines.

Another option is to select all the ink on a Journal page and paste it onto
a PPT slide (or other Office document). You can then use PPT to save slides
as image files (including colour TIFF). Unfortunately there isn't a way to
automate this process except via SendKeys types of scripts.

Thanks for your suggestion. The only problem with web archive files is that my customers aren't familiar with them. With all the strange email viruses going around, people can be hesitant to open attachments that aren't standard documents.

-jimmy


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"Jimmy Flannigan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Currently using Journal to sketch out design specs for web and software
> projects. I'm finding it confusing for my customers to send them the "Web
> Archive" file but it's the only way I've found to maintain the color and
> resolution. I exported to TIF but it lost all the colors I had used. I
> "printed" to PDF Distiller using 5.0 and the resolution of the ink was
> just horrible.

Is there anything that is especially confusing about the web archive files?
They are easily opened in IE and offer paging support.

If you open the Web archive in IE and save it as a regular Web thicket, then
you can recover the embedded images by renaming the appropriate files as GIF
or PNG.