[WEB4LIB] Scanned document pdf file sizes

[jcichewicz at tln.lib.mi.us]

I learned this the hard way and a friend told me the trick.  Print to
Adobe PDFWriter instead of Distiller. It makes *much* smaller file sizes
and they are fine on screen and in print.  PDFwriter is part of the custom
install (at least on Acrobat 5.0).

Joy

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On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Ian Winship wrote:

> We are having trouble getting what we think should be sensible file sizes
> for scanned documents in pdf format. A complete 20 page document scanned
> direct into pdf at 200dpi was 40Mb or more, but if the pages were done
> separately and then combined the size was about 650k! Scanning to bitmap and
> then converting in Acrobat Writer gives larger sizes. Using Distiller didn't
> seem to make a lot of difference.
> 
> Can anyone advise or point to guidelines on getting optimum file sizes
> versus image quality for various purposes. We are concerned largely with
> scanning same size (copyright cleared!) journal articles, book chapters and
> similar types of document for users to view or download from our Web site.
> 
> (I have looked at some discussion on this list from a couple of years ago,
> but wonder what else may have developed since.) 
> 
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> Ian Winship
> Learning Resources, University of Northumbria at Newcastle  
> City Campus Library, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK 
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