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Re: Improving images (not screen captures) in my PDF?
Subject:Re: Improving images (not screen captures) in my PDF? From:"Brigitte Johnston" <bjohnston -at- humantech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:08:08 -0500
Thanks a million to all of you who (quickly!) responded to my question. I did a little testing, and opening the PDF file and exporting to an eps file is going to do the trick. Still needs a little tweaking (because there are images within images!) but, for the most part, the resulting image is very nice and sharp. I learn something new every day from you guys! Thank you for taking the time out to answer.
Brigitte R. Johnston
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brigitte Johnston
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 10:13 AM
> To: 'techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com'
> Subject: Improving images (not screen captures) in my PDF?
>
> 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.
> Brigitte R. Johnston
> Tech. Writer/Editor
> bjohnston -at- humantech -dot- com
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