Acrobat and scans

[Charles da Silva]

Hi,
I'd like to scan an old computer manual and put it as a pdf file. The
problem is that it takes too much space (about 70 MB). How is it possible to
take less space without OCRing it ? What parameters do you use with acrobat
to have a small file but still with good quality ?
Thanks
Charles

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[Hywel Jenkins]

In article <3fc500e3$0$6968$7a62...@news.club-internet.fr>,
charles....@club-internet.fr says...

> Hi,
> I'd like to scan an old computer manual and put it as a pdf file. The
> problem is that it takes too much space (about 70 MB). How is it possible to
> take less space without OCRing it ? What parameters do you use with acrobat
> to have a small file but still with good quality ?

You can't. You're saving it as a load of JPEG images. Did you consider
trying an Acrobat newsgroup?

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[jake]

In message <3fc500e3$0$6968$7a62...@news.club-internet.fr>, Charles da
Silva <charles....@club-internet.fr> writes

The only way to save on file space when creating a PDF Image Only file
is to adjust the resolution of the scanner e.g. 200dpi instead on
300dpi.

As putting it through Capture in order to create a PDF Normal file only
takes a few seconds, I'm not sure why you don't want to do this.

Comparison in sizes:

http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/pdf_size.htm (.svg image)
or
http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/pdf_size2.htm (.png image)

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