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RE: Thanks: Screen Capture + Word + PDF = Much Better
Subject:RE: Thanks: Screen Capture + Word + PDF = Much Better From:Emru Townsend <etownsen -at- Softimage -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:05:10 -0400
By the way, you don't have to turn off all compression. Just turn off
downsampling or subsampling, and select LZW or ZIP for your compression
method (RLE for monochrome). It's lossless, and it'll cut down your file
size.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Berg [mailto:dberg -at- dmpnet -dot- com]
>
> Thanks for all the responses, both on and off list. The only
> way we were
> able to produce a PDF with acceptable images in Acrobat 3.0
> was to take off
> all compression, resulting in a 44 meg file from a 2.5 meg
> Word document
> (165 pages + many images). The "powers-that-be" about had a
> fit...they were
> counting on having this out today for web distribution, and
> the software
> this manual documents is less than 2 megs.
>
> Then we located a personal laptop in the building with
> Acrobat 4.05a, and
> with image compression set to max quality the resulting PDF
> was only 1.4 meg
> and everything looks good.
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