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Subject:Re: Acrobat and Compression From:David Hancock <dhancock -at- ARINC -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:53:22 EST
Last week, Sally Yeo (sallyyeo -at- execpc -dot- com) posted the following:
> Acrobat will compress text files up to about 50%, but that percent
> goes down as the amount of graphics in the file goes up.
My experience is the opposite: the more graphics in the source
document, the better the compression. A straight text document, in
fact, seems to compress very little. Graphics get "downsampled" to a
fixed resolution and that can give some dramatic compression. The
various types of compression in Acrobat can be enabled individually.
