I have another take on the .pdf's, and take some issue with Tom. I have scanned my letterhead to a pretty high resolution .tif file. I can then type in photoshop my correspondance, then convert to .pdf - clunky, but it works. Files go from 37mb down to a manageable 500kb for e-mail. I am therefore sending a text document that starts as a graphic, and looks great on the screen - even prints well. This also is a way to preserve foreign diacriticals.
Which brings up a problem I've had: my Acrobat resists copying those diacriticals from webpages; I've tried through Distiller to get them into the program, without luck. Would appreciate any advice on this. --- On Thu, 1/29/09, Jeff Wright <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jeff Wright <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Scanned To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 8:33 AM > PDF is a vector format derived from PostScript. If you had the original > document file, not a scan, then saving it into PDF would be a good > idea. > The PDF would contain the font information, the text (coded as ASCII or > UTF), and geometry infomation about how the text is positioned on the > page. > > While a PDF can contain another file format, like TIFF or JPEG, you are > not accomplishing anything useful by doing that. You are just wrapping > one file format around a different file format. Double wrapping may be > good for the freezer, but for digital data it accomplishes nothing > useful. You're overthinking this exercise. Perhaps to you, a graphics person, this data is important. To the average user who just needs the document, they don't care about this metadata if they expect it in read-only form. I haven't cared a bit about the font information in any contract or other form I've received as a pdf and no one has ever complained about a scanned pdf I've sent them. They just want what's in the document itself. It's a good, compact and portable format that most people know what to do with. Few people outside of graphics departments have encountered a tiff; even fewer know what to do with it. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
