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Subject:Graphics in PDF From:Tom Campbell <tcampbell -at- WEATHER -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:20:53 -0400
Connie,
I really went through the mill with this problem in a previous assignment.
Key contributors to the problem were the combination of:
- upgrading to Acrobat Reader 3.01
- using PDFWriter (Word macro) instead of Acrobat Distiller to create PDFs
- downsampling settings (non-configurable via PDFWriter)
- PDL printer (not PostScript)
If you can supply the following, I might be able to help further:
1. Your version of Adobe Acrobat Exchange & Distiller
2. Your version of Acrobat Reader
3. Type of printer (PDL, PostScript, etc.)
4. If you're using Acrobat Distiller, the job options you're using (Distiller menu)
Tom Campbell
>We're trying to put our manuals up on our web site and we are using Acrobat
>to do it. The trouble we're having is with our screen shots. They look
>awful once in a PDF file. No matter what we do, and we've spent many hours
>trying different things, we can only get the screen shots to look worse.
>Has anyone had any success getting high quality screen shots into PDF? If
>so, how? If this has been a discussion topic before, be patient please, I'm
>new to this list. Thanks in advance for your help.
