>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.
Here we return to a "science vs sorcery" situation. "Files go from 37mb down to a manageable 500kb" means that you have converted the scan to a lossy, highly compressed JPEG. Acrobat's default settings will do this so converting to PDF has this side effect. You could have just as well created a JPEG using a variety of other programs. Science give us control over our environment. Sorcery has us painting our faces blue to keep our computers from crashing. >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. You probably have font problems. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
