"Harley, Ageless Wings" wrote:

Paul...

Will it do imbedded graphics or just text?<<

Appears to...my web page turned out pretty good.

Can you try it on a technical book of some sort?<<

Sure...let me scan a page that has a bit of everything on it from the Haynes
RX-7 manual and we'll see what happens.

OK..all done.  Found out some interesting things.  Did a few scans at
different resolutions...as suspected, the higher resolution scans produced
larger pdf files.

But, not expected was the INCREASE in size of the pdf file when converting
jpg files!  Apparently it converts the data directly from a "display"
version of the file, and not the compressed file itself.

I was able to print directly from the scan without saving it as a file...the
haynes-96.pdf file is just that, scanned at 100 dpi, saved in pdf format at
96 dpi.

I scanned one image at 300 dpi (as scanned, it was 7.5 MB!) just to see what
would happen. Saved it as a jpg.  The other file (haynesl.pdf) is the pdf
from that...pretty big, but still about half the size of the original.

Sorry for the size of it, but I though you'd like to see the difference the
scanned resolution makes both in the file size, and the legibility of it
when zoomed.

Just to see what happens, I used Acrobat 4.0 to convert the same 300 dpi jpg
file. It produced a 14 MB pdf file, and took much longer...about a minute...
to do it!

So, this little gem of a program looks like it's faster and produces more
than adequate pdf files for the price (free, if you don't mind that extra
page).

Any other samples you'd like to see, just let me know...I promise I'll keep
'em smaller from now on! <G>

Harley

Thanks Harley. Those look great I will download as soon as possible.

Paul Lamar
 
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