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Subject:Re: Creating PDF files from PageMaker From:Max Wyss <prodok -at- PRODOK -dot- CH> Date:Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:27:31 +0100
Nara,
Most likely, GIF is NOT the right file format for your images ...
particularly not if they are color images; with greyscale images, GIF can
work, but it might become tricky when the browser has to display more than
one image at a time.
You'd have some possibilities:
Try to convert the images to GIF externally, for example in Photoshop.
Try to convert the images to JPEG extermally, and then use a Search and
Replace in the HTML files to change the file names.
Hope, this can help.
Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering AG
Technical documentation and translations, Electronic Publishing
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
>
>I'm having a similar problem with converting pagemaker files to html.
> The graphics that were tiffs are converted to gif but are still much
>to big to be reasonable in an html document. To further complicate
>the situation they are ultrasound images for medical applications
>that absolutely rely on quality imaging and high resolution. Any
>advice or suggestions for resources would be welcome.
>
>Nara