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RE: Improving images (not screen captures) in my PDF?
Subject:RE: Improving images (not screen captures) in my PDF? From:"Martin Polley" <Martinp -at- Surf-com -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:16:25 +0200
You could make a screen capture (either using a proprietary program or
by using Alt-PrintScrn and pasting into Paint) from either Word or
Acrobat (with the page scaled appropriately to show the whole form).
Then just crop off the bits you don't need and save as either a GIF or
PNG. (Try both, and see which comes out smaller.)
(Compressed TIFFs are supposed to be pretty small too, but I have never
tried them.)
Then insert this graphic into your document.
HTH,
Martin Polley
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brigitte Johnston [mailto:bjohnston -at- humantech -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 5:13 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Improving images (not screen captures) in my PDF?
Hello everyone!
I write manuals (around 300 pages) for my company's training classes.
In these manuals we have images of forms and instructions on how to fill
out these forms. Problem: the images of the forms are fuzzy.
Some background...I create the forms in Word 2000 and then create a PDF
of each using Acrobat 4.0. A graphic designer scans the PDF and saves
the image as a 'tif' file. I insert the tif into my Word (2000)
document (the manual). I can read the form (when the final manual is
PDF'd), but it's just not the quality I'd like. Also, the tif file
sizes are huge (4,000 - 8,000 KB). Is there something I can do on my
end to get clearer images (using the Word document of the form), or does
the refinement have to come from the graphic designer (using my PDF of
the form)?
(Also, it doesn't matter whether the quality in the Word document is
good or bad, because the 'final' manual is PDF'd.)
Many thanks for any scraps of advice you can toss my way!
Brigitte R. Johnston
Tech. Writer/Editor
bjohnston -at- humantech -dot- com
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