Re: Word to PDF (What is the best graphic file to use?)

[Toni Williams TPG/SG <towilliams -at- PROCYONGROUP -dot- COM>]

I have been following this thread because our company will soon be
converting our main product's
documentation to PDF and the following post brought a question to mind.

What is the primary purpose of converting to PDF?

If it is to supply the user with an online document, this problem with fuzzy
graphics may well defeat
the purpose.

If it is to supply the user with an easy way to obtain printed documentation
then there is no problem.

Any comments or opinions? Thanks.

Toni Williams
towilliams -at- procyongroup -dot- com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linda Castellani [SMTP:linda -at- GRIC -dot- COM]
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 3:53 PM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: Word to PDF (What is the best graphic file to use?)
>
> Leona, I struggled with this for months.  I haunted the Adobe forum asking
> questions, I searched the Adobe Web site, I sent e-mail to every link I
> could find in order to find out what to do about fuzzy graphics -
> particularly screenshots - in Word documents converted to pdf.
>
> Here's what I finally found out:  Word uses anti-aliasing in displaying
> graphics, so that they show up sharp and clear.  Adobe Reader, Adobe
> Acrobat, etc. do not.  The images in those applications are not
> anti-aliased when displayed, so they are fuzzy and often unreadable - on
> the screen.  However, they print perfectly.  (Just give it a try:  take a
> screen shot of the Acrobat page, and print that.  From Acrobat, send the
> same page directly to the printer.  Compare the two results.)
>
>


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