VueScan question

[John B. Thoo]

On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 06:34 AM, in X-Applications Joe 
Sporleder wrote:

> The "Save As PDF" option in MacOS X is not known for making "efficient"
> PDFs. I am running Acrobat Pro 6.0 and have found that if I can hand
> work off to Acrobat Distiller 6 as a PostScript file, it produces much
> more compact PDFs (look for Output options in your print dialogue).
> Acrobat 6 also has a nice optimization function to streamline files. I
> use it to make multiple pages of online newspapers to be nice and
> compact in size for online downloading. In fact, it has a function
> called "PDF Optimizer". I wonder if that is new to Acrobat 6 or if it
> also exists in 5 (I went from 4.x to 6).

Thanks for the tip on making a PS file first, Joe.  I haven't been 
doing that.  Instead, as you mentioned, I've been using "Save As 
PDF...", and then using Acrobat 5 to put them into one PDF file.  I'll 
give the PS route a try, although I have Distiller 5 that runs in 
Classic, and I try to avoid using Classic.  Maybe I can use ps2pdf in 
Terminal.  Or look into upgrading to Acrobat 6.  Cheers.

---John.