Sorry if I missed that George.

Screen captures are generally hard to work with to get good prints, but sometimes they're the only thing you've got. That appears to be the case with Noteworthy. I'm a bit puzzled that the Noteworthy FAQ would suggest doing the capture from the print preview, as I don't see any way to make anything useful out of that - for much of anything I'd want to do.

A method I've used in the past with good success is to use native PostScript (not PDF). If you can print it, you can load a PostScript printer driver and print to file. This gives you a PostScript file for the document. A PostScript file is actually a "program" for drawing the page, so there's no "bit content" involved. Since PS is a vector graphic script, in plain ASCI characters, you can look at it in a text editor or Word, and/or you can use GhostView/GhostScript to "get to the innards." In the script, you should be able easily to identify any fonts that are used, and provide them for printing - but you can only print the script usefully if you have a real PostScript printer* to send it to.

Unfortunately, if there are embedded "bit-graphics" in the file, they get passed through in binary form, and there's not much you can do to improve on what you start with.

If you can edit the PostScript program (the script) to what you want, some graphics editing programs can import it to make a usable .jpg or other format thing you can use. (Most graphics programs can only work with single page scripts.) When you do the import you usually can specifiy the dpi you want, and I often pass stuff to bits at about 600 dpi. You can always reduce it, but increasing after it's been imported works less well.

*Many "PostScript capable" printers may read a !PS file and process the image in PostScript, but actually print the file in the printer's native language. With drivers for recent HP models, you'll get a PCL format when you print to file. You'd need to use a driver from one of the older printers to actually print the !PS. The HPIIIP with PostScript cartridge is one I've used quite a lot, or you can use nearly any of the Linotronic drivers to get a "true !PS" file. Drivers for these will be on any recent Windows version Instl disks, or can be downloaded from Adobe (free).

This method "ain't for the faint of heart" but often gives excellent results once you work out how to do it. To go very far with it, you'll want the PDFReference16.pdf, which you can download for free from Adobe now - just so you can look up command formats, etc.

John