doug Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Asking here, on behalf of one of my daughters who is starting to do some freelance work. She has to make submissionson behalf of clients but the documents that she has to send over the net are limited to a 2MB limit. Some documents have been sent to her by post, most recent one of 12 pages. She has scanned the pages and the resulting jpg/tiff files are 9.5 MB in size and too big to be received at the far end. I've just been browsing some pdf files on my HD, which are Acrobat files for handbooks. and one of 80 pages is only 2.5 MB. I thought - wow - must look into this. So is it possible for her to paste thes scanned images into a pdf reader? If so what application would you recomend - only the best freeware is acceptable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Get her to try this./>http://www.pdf3.com/download-now.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Hi Doug.A very nice little piece of freeware that will convert images to PDF format is "i2PDF"One of the nicest things about this is that there is nothing to install. You just unzip after download, and start using it.You can find this in both 32 and 64bit versions ** HERE ** There are options to both image resize and set the jpeg quality before producing the PDF.Resizing and quality settings will of course affect the overall size of the resultant PDF..=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.Let's hope that your daughter does well with her new work project Doug.It may be well worthwhile for the future to set herself up with a FREE file hosting service that handles large files.She would only have to upload large files to the server, and then give customers the URL to be able to pick them up.Here are just a couple that are free:/>http://www.mediafire.com//>http://www.megaupload.com/My personal favourite is ***DROPBOX*** Hope that has been of some help Doug.John. EDIT: Have just seen that Alan has given a link too.It's a bit like buses innit ? None for ages, and then two come at once. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Well thanks folks, some homework required now, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Well I'm into i2pdf, tearing my hair out trying to find a way to drop a test file into it.. Help file doesn't seem to give any info, can't find the help for for the help file. HELP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Foxit will do it as well, I just tried it and it worked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Well I'm into i2pdf, tearing my hair out trying to find a way to drop a test file into it(1)Open up the software. (2)Open up a folder with your photos in.(3) Adjust the size of the window for your photos folder.(4)Now you have two windows open side by side on your screen. (i2pdf and photos folder)(5)Just drag the photos from the folder and drop them onto the software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 I don't think the scanned images will become any smaller by putting them into a PDF, unless they are resized. But then I do not really know the inner workings of PDF, so I could be wrong.Scan results also differ on the file size; TIFF being some kind of raw format occupy the largest size, JPEG depend on the the compression how much size they use (higher compression = less space = less quality).P.S. I personally use PNG for almost all image things; high quality, no compression, still not too high file sizes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Thanks for reply Pat. May be making progress. She had scanned the original document and sent the lot to me as a combined TIF file. Following Maneman's suggestion I'm opening each page and doing a screen copy and copy into PSP. Selecting the page pasting as a new image, then saving that as a separate image. That I found I could select and drag onto the i2pdf page. At least that's where I got to last night. Now to do the whole document from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 A double bonus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 What was it exactly that has got you sorted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Yes, thank you. It really got her out of a hole, well she submitted what I did to meet a deadline. This has bought her time to get stuck in to the application. thanks for the efforts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 DougI remain curious to learn which of the solutions got your problem sorted.....please put us wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 I used i2pdf. The opened the file K sent copied each page and pasted into PSP and saved it as a jpg. Dragged each pict onto the i2pdf page ala Maneman's second post then Built the PDF file. This resulted in a reductio from 12 to 6 MB - still too big. I then did a rebuild with the compression almost at max.. this resulted in a 1.5 MB file. E-mailed it to K and she said yeterday that it looked OK so she sent it off. I think she'll have to practice copying pages of documents as jpg's etc and sorting out what degree of compression she needs. So thanks all and further suggestions will be welcome - at least we have some breathing space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 I just scanned a document in 4 different formats and the difference is quite noticeable the TIF 128KB I think was the best then the JPEG 841KB the PNG at 92.1KB was rubbish and the Bitmap at 937 was not as good as the first two, the question is why did she scan them as JPEG as she would get 6 to 7 pages at TIF for 1 JPEG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 No I converted those pages to jpg, she had scanned them as TIF, So whats the optimum recomendarion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Further developements, K had been scanning the pages in max resolution and colour, then combining the whole shebang as a single file! Next time she's agreed to just scan in B & W and minimum resolution. > Daughter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 In the future Doug, it's far easier to go along with my earlier suggestion about uploading to a free file host.If there are deadlines to reach, and only large files available, rather than fanny around like you have been for a couple of days, - just upload the large files.Email is a fairly limited way to get large things/files/folders quickly to people these days.Just a thought, - and an avenue for you to explore on behalf of your daughter. :)I'm outta here. B) John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 I appreciate all the input/output of this thread.I will most probably refer back to this in the near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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