Re: Hardcore Computist Magazine online...

[Chris Morse <chris@sorry.no.spam.com>]

On 18 Feb 2004 12:14:21 -0600, Michael Maginnis
<michaelmaginnis@yahoo.com> wrote:

>wseehorn@earthlink.net wrote:
>> On 16 Feb 2004 06:23:04 -0600, "michaelmaginnis@yahoo.com" <Michael
>> Maginnis> wrote:
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>> Mike,
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>> I may be telling you something you already know...
>> 
>> I do scanning of PDF in the WinDoze world. In that version of Acrobat
>> if you use PDF distiller or PDF writer (from the Print menu) & select
>> screen resolution you cut down the file size considerably.
>> 
>> Will
>> 
>> Still reading the Apple // boards for sentemental reasons
>
>Still can't get the file size per page down below 1 MB or so. Too large 
>for this project.

I find that if the pages are black and white, that saving them as GIF
files will greatly reduce their size.  For some scans I did recently,
it worked great.  35k GIF file -vs- 1MB JPG files..  Maybe something
to try..

// CHRIS