Captured screenshots stretching in browser window.

Hello. I'm using RoboHelp HTML 8.0.2.208. I'm creating an online user manual (exporting as FlashHelp), for which I am capturing many screen shots of my application, and cropping to various sizes (using RoboScreenCapture). I'm editing the size of the new images, and generally "maintaining aspect ratio" and setting the preferred width to 80%. When I initially preview the topic and new image, the image is often (not always) stretched horizontally down the screen. If I close preview, and re-open (without saving or anything), the image is then displayed fine. The same thing is happening with my generated output file, both while viewing in a web browser, and within a JFrame: When you click on a topic in the TOC, the screen-captured images are distorted and stretched horizontally. If you simply re-click the topic and reload the page, the displayed image appears fine. Images in the same topic, further down the page, however, display the same behavior until you re-load with them in the viewing pane.
If there is a fix to this, can it be applied to all of my images? Thank you!!!
Chris

Hi Peter
I totally agree with you. After all, resizing is resizing and it really doesn't matter if you resize before insertion or after insertion. It just seems simpler to me if you resize before you even insert, because then you don't have to take the extra step of remembering to reset the size in the page once you have finished with the resizing.
I think the issue here is that we are essentially talking about two different approaches. The correct approach totally depends on where the beginning point is.
If you aren't sure about the size to begin with, or you received a system, page or other document that has the image in it already, Peter's approach is the only real approach you have. Insert, observe, resize, save and reset, observe...
If you already know the size you want, just resize and save before dropping into RoboHelp.
This has been an interesting thread. First I've ever seen where someone suggested Visio produces the "cleanest" resized image. We used to see that Microsoft Word was suggested for that very reason. Folks claimed that viewing the image at the scaled size in Word resulted in a nicely reduced size. They would then screen capture that image for use later.
Cheers... Rick
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