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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 Page" <mpage -at- csl -dot- co -dot- uk> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:09:56 -0000
Keith suggested
> 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?
To expand on this if I may, if you have Word 2002, paste the form into a
text box inside a canvas and rescale the canvas to shrink the form. For
earlier versions, put the textbox in a "Microsoft Word Picture" embedded in
the main document and do the same.
<kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com> wrote in message news:176153 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> > 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
>
>
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