RE: Improving images (not screen captures) in my PDF?

Subject: RE: Improving images (not screen captures) in my PDF?
From: LDurway -at- pav -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:28:53 -0600


Maybe the Adobe Acrobat Distiller, which generates your PDFs, is producing
low-resolution graphics rather than hi-res. Bring up the Distiller through
the Windows Start menu. Select Settings > Job Options > Compression. There
are three classes of graphics there: color, grayscale, & monochrome. For
the class that you're using, if the dpi is something low like 72 dpi, that
will produce low-quality graphics. I had a problem like yours, and after
raising the dpi to 300, things were fine.

Disclaimer: I'm no expert in these matters; I'm just telling you what
worked for me.

Side note: TIFs are indeed huge. While graphic designers seem to prefer
them, mortals like us can generally make do with a compressed form like GIF
or PNG.

Lindsey

>
> Some background...I create the forms in Word 2000 and then
> create a PDF of each using Acrobat 4.0. A graphic designer
> scans the PDF and saves the image as a 'tif' file. I insert
> the tif into my Word (2000) document (the manual). I can
> read the form (when the final manual is PDF'd), but it's just
> not the quality I'd like. Also, the tif file sizes are huge
> (4,000 - 8,000 KB). Is there something I can do on my end to
> get clearer images (using the Word document of the form), or
> does the refinement have to come from the graphic designer
> (using my PDF of the form)?
>
>


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