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Poster: Anarchisme.nl Date: Oct 12, 2021 5:28am
Forum: forums Subject: Tips & tricks making good PDF's

Dear fellow archivers,

At the moment I am struggeling with a PDF and actually I have to admit that my workflow unclear. I have scanned a book which is over 500 pages (300dpi, 16x24cm) and uncompressed it leads to a PDF of 5GB. If I optimize it in Adobe Acrobat Reader X Pro, the file get smaller, but still is a staggering 800 MB's.

I want to get the filesize down, but i've tried so many different quality-settings, but most really harm the file-quality.

Can someone help me out with a good way of preparing the PDF?

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Poster: Jeff Kaplan Date: Oct 12, 2021 11:09am
Forum: forums Subject: Re: Tips & tricks making good PDF's

if you are uploading it you can use an image stack rather than pdf. see: https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360001820212-How-to-upload-scanned-images-to-make-a-book

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Poster: Anarchisme.nl Date: Oct 13, 2021 1:13am
Forum: forums Subject: Re: Tips & tricks making good PDF's

In what way does this result into better PDF's? Is the automated process behind Archive.orgs system doing this then? And the result is a lossless but compact PDF-file I can download afterwards?

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Poster: Jeff Kaplan Date: Oct 13, 2021 8:49am
Forum: forums Subject: Re: Tips & tricks making good PDF's

yes, the system will create a pdf from your uploaded file stack.