Re: Making a PDF out of a load of JPEGs

On 23.08.06 21:37, Bob Eager wrote:

Thanks...I installed VTeX/2 this morning and a two page test worked
fine. It is now churning away building the 20 page version! In fact,
as I typed that, it finished...took 55 minutes on a 3.2GHz P4...!

Good to hear that. Sounds like you've scanned with grayscales in a
higher resolution. (You've already told that there are graphs
included.)

I've made good experiences with the following settings, but for text
only: lineart and 200x200 dpi (after many tests). That results in a
size of 470 kB per A4 page, uncompressed as TIF.

VTeX has compression built-in, so one can feed it with the
uncompressed bitmaps. It outputs the PDF with 50 kB per scanned A4
side. For printing, that's more than sufficient.

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Andreas Schnellbacher
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