Re: hwg-basics-digest V1 #788

Hi Julie,

I've found that scanning directly into Acrobat is a
poor way to import.  If you have Photoshop, you can
scan with that, clean up a lot of the dirty stuff
scans often pick up and then save as a pdf and
probably get down to 100 or even 80 dpi.

It also depends on what you want to do with those five
pages.  If you are only trying to preserve fonts and
layout, you'll almost certainly be better off scanning
into your graphics editor and limiting the pallete to
B&W or grayscale.  If you must use acrobat at this
point, you might try saving as a postscript file and
then importing to acrobat but I've never tried that
and don't have Acrobat on my system anymore.

The real power of Acrobat is indexing large docments
while preserving fonts (which don't have to be on the
client system), layout and maintaining a minimal file
size...in many cases though, the file size isn't as
small as you'd like it to be.

--- Julie Cooke <skyamese2(at)yahoo.com> wrote:
> HI,
> 
> I just upgraded to Adobe Acrobat 4.0(PC) over the
> weekend and have spent all afternoon trying to scan
> in
> a 5 page document using the Import>Scan feature. 
> There's a little bit of color artwork and some
> shaded
> text boxes, but I'd say that about 80% is just plain
> black text on a white letter-size paper.  
> 
> This file is coming out HUGE!  I'm getting 103MB
> when
> I scan it as 300dpi color.  I've experimented with
> greyscale and reducing the dpi, but it's still
> coming
> out to be over 1MB per page. Anything less than
> 150dpi
> becomes illegible because of the shaded text boxes. 
> When I save it, I do make sure that the "optimized"
> checked.
> 
> I've looked through the help guide and
> www.pdfzone.com
> and the Adobe site.  So far I haven't seen much
> useful. I've made lots of PDFs with Acrobat 3 and
> never had this kind of trouble.  Does anyone know
> how
> to slim this puppy down?
> 
> Please cc me off-list, as I'm on digest.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> 
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> Capitol College - Laurel, MD
> http://www.capitol-college.edu
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