manuals in pdf (resolution, compression)

From: Tom Owad <owad_at_applefritter.com>
Date: Sat Jun 26 19:15:13 2004

On Saturday, June 26, 2004, Paul Williams, wrote:
>You need to scan at 1bpp, not grayscale. When you are converting from
>grayscale to 1bpp, you are probably getting dithering (a pseudo-random
>scattering of black and white pixels) in order to approximate the
>original grays at the edges of characters. This dithering will ruin the
>achievable compression in G4, which is a fax algorithm optimised for
>runs of white and black pixels.

Ah, ok - I was using dithering.

Now I've gotten the images down to 28 KB G4 tiffs, which become 40 KB pdfs.

Here's the first three pages, a 152 KB pdf file: <www.applefritter.com/
temp/sample.pdf>. Any reservations about the quality of the file, or
anything else, before I start doing a whole bunch more just like this?

Thanks!
Tom

Applefritter
www.applefritter.com
Received on Sat Jun 26 2004 - 19:15:13 BST