Creating PDF's from scanned image files

From: Paul Williams <celigne_at_tinyworld.co.uk>
Date: Mon Jan 14 15:05:57 2002

Doug Coward wrote:
>
> First, here is my notes on converting an
> JPG image to a G4 TIF image in Windows:

"If I wanted to go there, I wouldn't start from here". Unless you have
no scanner and have obtained these JPEG files from someone else, there
is no point in saving your scans as JPEG in the first place. I just scan
straight to 300dpi bilevel TIFFs.

> Hans turned me onto IMG2PDF for windows (demo version
> on the Web). But I must have screwed up the
> installation. It produced a 6 page PDF file but the
> pages were all blank and the file was 4K in size!!

I had a similar problem when importing TIFFs into Acrobat. The problem
turned out to be that the 300dpi TIFFs had been erroneously labelled as
72dpi (by Paint Shop Pro, I think). Acrobat choked when it thought it
would have to produce a page size of about 35" by 45".
Received on Mon Jan 14 2002 - 15:05:57 GMT