On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Tom Owad wrote:
> 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.
Just test it. For scanning, I usually dont *care* about the size,
since we're doing preservation, we get to do it *once*. So, I set
things to "max quality" and scan. Once that is done, usually turn
them into PDF with Acrobat, in "prepress quality". In your example,
this would yield a PDF of about 30M. I consider that very acceptable
for a scanned manual of good quality. If someone wants a smaller one,
one can always reduce it later. The opposite (sending out low-qual
ones and then make them look better) doesn't work so good.
> Thoughts? Which of the three would you most want to download?
The best one :) Disk space (or even bandwidth) issues are a problem
of days gone, I'd say. Downloaded PDF's easily fit on CD-R's, which,
at $0.10 a piece, come cheap...
Cheers,
Fred
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Received on Sat Jun 26 2004 - 10:35:30 BST