On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at 05:53 AM, in X-Applications Stephen Hart wrote: > But if you're scanning a document, unless you subsequently use OCR to > turn it into text, you're dealing with large graphics, not text. So > shrinking the size of the pdf will depend directly on how much you can > degrade the graphic and still read it. You may get some saving by > making sure you're using grayscale and not full color. > > My experience with making copied articles into pdfs was that they were > always huge. I was afraid of that. I don't scan often, thank goodness, but I do create PDFs of "regular" work relatively often. The tips that have been posted here will come in handy. Thanks. ---John.