PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________
Hmm... didn't know that. The problem is that when I create a PDF one way, it creates a smaller PDF than another method. For example, we are in the process of converting TIFFs of scanned documents (that are no longer available as word processing files, some dating back to 1891) to PDFs so that the public may download a single PDF rather than view a page at a time using a server-based TIFF viewer. What I have been doing is to clean up the scanned pages (deskew, remove artifacts, etc) and PDF the first page. I then drag the remaining TIFFs into the PDF. At times, this PDF can be up to 250Mb. I then "refry" the PDF and it will come down to a more reasonable 60Mb (still large but often these documents are 300 - 400 pages in length). I have tried a couple of other methods as well such as PDF'ing each page and using the Document>Insert to insert them but this is a much longer process because of all the PDFs I need to create. I think this method produces a smaller method than the above method but the process is much longer and with about 8,000 documents to go, any speed increase we can find is to our advantage. Furthermore, sometimes the pages are off-center, ie too far to the left or the right. What we have futher adopted to our practice is to crop the TIFF to just the text area which of course is smaller than 8.5x11, sometimes, with bound books, the text area is about 5x8. By "refrying" the PDF to letter-size, the process centers the text on the 8.5x11 area which satisfies our editors who review the work after we are done to ensure it meets our standards for public documents. Can you suggest better methods for our needs? Jules --------------------------------------------------------- Julian Rickards Digital Publications Distribution Coordinator Publications Services Section Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines Phone: (705) 670-5608 Fax: (705) 670-5690 > > The process of "refrying" a PDF (taking it back through > Distiller) is MAJORLY frowned upon by Adobe, and should NOT be done > due to the fact that PDFs are MUCH richer than Postscript... To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
