Re: [LegacyUG] .PDF versus .JPG

[dale3290]

Sara and Others:

I have been following this discussion with interest, trying to decide whether I 
wanted to add my two cents to this discussion.

I am a retired printer and could write a book on using the proper type of 
files. But I will try to keep this short.

First let me say that I am a big fan of PDF files. They are very reliable and 
are not really slow, when used in the proper way.

As to the application (scanned census page) that started this discussion, no do 
not use a PDF(Portable Document File). The key thing here is document not 
image. If the file is a scanned file i.e. image or picture then a JPG or TIF 
would be the desired format. 

A PDF is used to transport a whole page or pages of a document. It is usually 
the result of printing a document not scanning it. While it may contain 
images(pictures) it is usually mostly text. It should be noted that most of the 
printed items that you received in the mail were probably a PDF file at 
sometime.

As to using PDFs as web pages, the display will be somewhat slower then a jpeq, 
if the PDF was printed and not scanned it will generally be clearer.

The advantage of  making PDF files rather the making HTML files is that the PDF 
file is a single file.

I could go on, but that should be enough for now. 

Dale
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From: "Sara Binkley Tarpley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
Personally I dislike pdf files, finding them slow to load and unreliable.

Sara Binkley Tarpley