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Subject:RE: Help with PDF writing From:Emru Townsend <etownsen -at- Softimage -dot- COM> To:"'techwrl'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:46:26 -0400
Kim,
First, are your graphics compression settings set for JPEG? If so, switch
to lossless compression like ZIP (for color or grayscale), or CCITT or RLE
(for monochrome). If you're still getting grief, turn off downsampling.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kim Nylander [mailto:nylanderk -at- ipix -dot- com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 4:41 PM
> Subject: Help with PDF writing
>
>
> What are the best settings to create a PDF file with
> reasonable looking
> graphics? The screen optimized file is 1.7 MB but the images are not
> acceptable quality. The PDF file I normally create is 3.5
> MB, but that
> is much too large.
