>Yeah, but it's a document; PDF was made for documents. We don't know if it >needs to be edited or not.
That's right, but from that point you veer into wrongness. A scanned image is a bunch of pixels, a raster image. The basic file format for this is TIFF. You can compress the TIFF with something like lossless LZW, or for extreme compression use a lossy format, usually JPEG. PDF is a vector format derived from PostScript. If you had the original document file, not a scan, then saving it into PDF would be a good idea. The PDF would contain the font information, the text (coded as ASCII or UTF), and geometry infomation about how the text is positioned on the page. While a PDF can contain another file format, like TIFF or JPEG, you are not accomplishing anything useful by doing that. You are just wrapping one file format around a different file format. Double wrapping may be good for the freezer, but for digital data it accomplishes nothing useful. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
