Re: Improving images (not screen captures) in my PDF?

[kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com]

> Hello everyone!
> 
> 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)?=20


I must be missing something - why are you adding all these steps? You
start out and end up in Word, so why bother making the form a graphic at
all? Why not just stay in Word the whole time? Then you can make a PDF of
your final document, which will treat the form as TEXT as opposed to a
graphic.


puzzled (not an unusual state of mind for me),
Keith Cronin



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