Shrinking PDFs

[John B. Thoo]

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.