As a non-scientist, previously working in broadcast television for over a decade, this hurts me, even more knowing this is destined for print. Surely your software can export those as proper, higher-resolution image files!

This hurts me as much as when I caught a young reporter, fresh out of university, making a basic graphic in Photoshop and instead of exporting the finished product, she took a screenshot and pasted it into Premiere. I stopped her, showed her how to do it the correct way, and the way she thanked me left it pretty clear she was going to continue with her wrong way once I left.

If on windows 10 (possibly 11), you can Windows key + Shift + S to “freeze” the screen so you can draw a rectangle to copy only a portion of the screen

Greenshot for Windows, Flameshot for Linux.