I'm new to this so bear with me if this is elementary or repeated.
I have a 103 page document in Word with about 90 screen shots.
The screen shots were taken with ALT-PRT SCR (due to limitations with Remote Desktop). They were saved as both BMP and JPG.
The Word file size is: 6,595 KB
The high quality PDF is: 6,033 KB <-this is too large.
Using Acrobat 6.0 I performed a "File...Reduce File Size" limiting to Acrobat Reader 6.0 or later. The file size is now: 3,407 KB. This is great. However, SOME (not all) of the graphics look like crap.
I went back and replaced those that looked bad with the larger (1.5M) bitmap versions and redid the translation. This worked only some of the time where the image in the reduced file size version looked ok.
Is there another way to get a higher quality image so that the "Reduce File Size" option in acrobat doesn't clobber the quality of the image?
Thanks.
I am not an expert on Adobe, but I have experienced similar problems and have had to fool around a lot to get things right. Sometimes "Save as..." and then resaving it reduced the size but did not seem to diminish the quality.
However, there may be a different approach... That is an extremely large document. Is there perhaps anything you can do to reduce the size of it so that "high quality" does not produce such a large document? (Reducing the size of the screen shots before inserting them). What graphics program were you using? What differences were there between the graphics that looked good and the ones that looked bad when converted?
Just a couple of ideas...