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

[Robert Emery]

I can help... let me know what to do.

Bob Emery

--- Michael Wayne Harwood <michael at musicheadproductions.org> 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
> 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
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