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Subject:Re: Which image format From:"Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:40:38 -0800
"Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com> wrote in message news:231138 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> Acrobat can handle them just fine, and if your printer won't take a
> press-ready PDF, they deserve to lose your business.
>
> I never, ever, send source files to a printer. I always send press-ready
> PDF.
>
I'm curious: why PDF and not PostScript? Doesn't Acrobat compress images
using JPG when it creates a PDF file?
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