Using Adobe Acrobat for e-researves

[Melanie Liu]

Hi all!

Our college wants to put electronic researve readings on the college
website. The ideal file format that we can think of is .PDF (Acrobat).
Since most of the reading material are photocopies from Journals or books,
we don't have the original electronic files (and we don't want to retype
them). To convert them into .PDF format, I need to scan them first, and
then use Acrobat Distiller to do the convertion. I used Acrobat 3.0 on a
Mac computer. So far the best result that I get is:

		8.5" x 11" page of plain text
		at resolution of 200 dpi, the print quality is OK.

But the file size is too big considering we have lots of reading material
to be put on the website.

Have anybody done similar work on electronic reserves? We would very like
to hear your experience or suggestions!!!

I've been looking at the Adobe's website, but it seems there is no simple
answer. Do we need to upgrade to Acrobat3.0.1? We don't have the Acrobat
Capture  on the software CD.

Thank you in advance for your help!!!

- Melanie Liu