Best Scanner Settings for PDF files

[Leo Robert Klein]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, giz womack wrote:

>Our library is working on a online reserve project. The files on reserve
>are scanned and stored as PDF files. My question is: Does anyone have
>any thoughts on optimal scanner settings for scanning such files? What
>is the best compromise of resolution versus file size. At 300 dpi it
>looks great, but the file is enourmous. At 150-200 it is a much smaller
>file, but the resolution is not ideal. Any thoughts, ideas?Tips, tricks?

Hi Giz,

Are you all using Distiller to compress the files?  In any case, we are
scanning at 300 dpi 2 bit (line art).  Once we've got them in at this
level, we bring them down to 200 dpi in Distiller.

It's important to play around with the settings in Distiller till you've
found the lowest acceptable point while at the same time of course
maintaining legibility.  Distiller's defaults genenerally aren't good enough.

LEO

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