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I have a pdf created with Acrobat Distiller 3.02
early in 1995. When printed the doc looks fine,
but on screen, it is fuzzy enough that customers
have complained about it's readability.
Here is a quote from my support people on this doc:
Some of the older manuals (e.g., 1995) were created
using an old tagging language that doesn't support
postscript fonts. Since this content has not been
updated recently, we created the PDF version using
a process that creates a bitmap representation of
the text. This is why the PDF displays poorly online.
It sounds like they scanned hard copy, but I can
copy text from the pdf.
I'm looking for a quick fix to get something readable
on screen to the customer ASAP while I update the doc
without the FM source files being available.
I've checked the archives and get too many hits
that aren't relevant to be useful.
I've tried save-as using Acrobat 5.0, with no luck.
Saving as RTF loses all formatting.
I tried to print to a file with a format that lent
itself to scanning with OCR, but all the formats I
tried were also fuzzy, just as on-screen.
Printing and then scanning a 300 page document is
not very time effective.
Any hope for a cleaner pdf?
CB on Win2K FM6 Acrobat5
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