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On Tuesday, April 21, 1998 10:01 PM, Gina Hertel
[SMTP:Ghertel -at- ALPHA88 -dot- COM] wrote:
> I am in the process of creating customized courseware for a client.
> I do not want to deliver my source file, so I created a PDF.
> Now I notice that, in the PDF printout, the quality of the screen
captures
> has depreciated (as compared with the Word printout).
Gina,
This is probably caused by the compression done by Adobe Distiller. In
Distiller (3.0) select Distiller -> Job Options -> Compression. Here you
have several options, fiddle around to see the results. This should
help.
Good luck,
Jeroen Hendrix
Technical Communications
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