manuals in pdf (resolution, compression)

From: Tom Owad <owad_at_applefritter.com>
Date: Sat Jun 26 10:27:16 2004

I have a lot of manuals I want to scan and am trying to decide upon the
best format. I'd like some opinions on the following scans of a 128-page
Franklin AceWriter manual.

On the low end is a pdf of bitmap images. It's hideous, but only 3.5 MB.

The high end is a 40 MB pdf of jpeg images. This one's easy on the eyes,
but is an awfully large download and I'm wondering if it might not print
as nicely as the bitmap.

In the middle is a pdf of compressed jpegs at 15 MB. This looks good to
my eyes, I just wonder about using compressed jpegs for archiving...

<www.applefritter.com/temp/acewriter_lo.pdf> (3.5 MB)
<www.applefritter.com/temp/acewriter_med.pdf> (15 MB)
<www.applefritter.com/temp/acewriter_hi.pdf> (40 MB)
(Disregard the incorrect ordering of the pages.)

Thoughts? Which of the three would you most want to download?

Tom

Applefritter
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Received on Sat Jun 26 2004 - 10:27:16 BST