[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Requesting .pdf help...

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 18 July 2005 07:11, Michael Wayne Harwood wrote:
>I know that this is a bit offtopic in general, but it ties to the
> Rainbow project so I figure it's not too far off base.
>
>I am writing this to ask for help in generating .pdf documents from
> hires images that have a resolution of 2550x3300 at 8bit color (8
> 1/2 x 11 at 300ppi).  As I have been working on this project I have
> come up with a variety of ways to decrease the size of the finished
> documents without seriously affecting quality.  My goal is a .pdf
> document whose size averages out to 160kb or less per page so that
> I can meet my goal of having the entire Rainbow collection on a
> single disc.
>
>I have been pretty ununimpressed with the quality of .pdf documents
> I have managed to create using a source image as descibed above. 
> My best results have come from resizing the image to 1/3 the size
> (100ppi), but this leaves little room to pass the image through an
> OCR image prior to the PDF generation.  My goals are:
>
>1) Size must average out to 160kb or less per page
>2) Visual quality must be at least as good as
>http://www.musicheadproductions.org/test2.pdf

A cover page is not a very good test page.  I mean thats a great .pdf, 
I blew it up to 800% before the effects of the dct could be seen on 
screen here, but its also 1.5 megs because its the cover of the rag 
and all image, in full color, but there is nothing there that would 
make OCR'ing it worthwhile.  To see what it will do, take a random 
page from inside the magazine thats >60% plain text.  Page 2 of a 
multipage article would be a good test page.

>3) It would be nice if a "once pass OCR" could be used to make the
> .pdf searchable.
>
>Can anyone help me?
>
>Regards,
>Michael Harwood
>
>
>
>
>
>Brought to you by the 6809, the 6803 and their cousins!
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.


Brought to you by the 6809, the 6803 and their cousins! 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ColorComputer/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    ColorComputer-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/