I'll just make a quick comment here.
If you are sharing a lot of documents etc with someone on dialup or who
is using an older system, you might want to chat with them before
totally switching to pdf. They can be a real problem for those on very
slow speed dialup (which for some is all that is available. PDF files of
one or two pages tend to be much larger than sending an image of the
document) or for someone on older systems.
In my case I have one other problem to consider. I share information
with someone who uses assistive technologies on their computers. PDF's
are, for the most part, incompatible with many of those technologies.
And one other thing - when making a pdf from a web page, you may lose
some of the structure of the page. Each web page provider needs to be
judged individually. (Having said that many provide pdf downloads. Again
check them as you get them. I find that some from HQ will not open.)
Just something to consider when considering your usage.
Jackie
Tim Rosenlof wrote:
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Cathy Vallevieni wrote:
I like the results. Much easier to read on the screen in pdf than in
a
picture browser as a jpg. I think I may go back and get all the
Census
and similar documents that I can from Ancestry, etc. and resave all of
them as originals to a pdf file which should make them the clearest
they
can be (which can be important with the quality of some Census').
I'll
compare the difference between an original scan to pdf vs. converting
a
jpg to pdf then make the final decision. I was surprised to see they
are about the same size file (would have expected a pdf to be much
bigger).
If you're interested in PDF, then FireFox with the PDF Download add-on
is a good way of creating a single PDF page document from a web-page.
Windows - Cuteftp
Small foot print
http://www.cutepdf.com/
Tim
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