> Acrobat 4 can import up to 50 files at once. So if you have
> scanned to 50 individual TIFFs you can import them all in
> one go (it's not that speedy though!). I expect that
> Acrobat 5 can also import, but I could never find the
> right menu ! What it can do (which 4 and earlier could not)
> is spit out a PDF file as individual G4 compressed TIFFs.
G4 compression is pretty poor. I really like DjVu format instead of
PDF. It uses much better compression technology (JBIG2 for bitonal
black/white and fractal compression for color images) and gives better
legibility as well. Check out the free, open source tools for creating
and viewing it at
http://djvu.sourceforge.net/, and the free-beer
Windows and Mac viewers at www.djvu.com.
For DjVu examples, see some of the newer documents on my TRS-80 page,
http://www.tim-mann.org/misosys.html
I think Acrobat 5 may also have JBIG2 compression, though earlier
versions didn't, so if you have that, you may do about as well as DjVu
for bitonal (aka "line art") scans. People trying to view them will
need an up-to-date version of the Acrobat reader too, of course.
--
Tim Mann tim_at_tim-mann.org http://www.tim-mann.org/
Received on Thu Jan 16 2003 - 01:54:27 GMT