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

[Michael Wayne Harwood]

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





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/