rumor has it that woodlandtaylors wrote: > Kaleb, > > Don't know if this would work for you. > > I use a free program called Cutepdf it gets installed as a printer. > Any text, picture, photograph or scanned item is "printed" to a file > (you name it) that can be read by Acrobat reader or other pdf > readers. Creating PDF files will take some of my BMP files from a > Meg down to 50K for email etc.
PDF has no builtin method for images. It is a (vertor) text format. However, it will use jpeg compression if it encounters an image. Thus, what you have done is made a .jpg copy of your .bmp and wrapped that .jpg inside of a .pdf wrapper. Not that this is bad, but it can be a bother to extract the image from the PDF so it can be treated as an image again. Now, if what you are trying to do is make it a bit harder for someone to modify your images, then a .pdf of a .bmp isn't such a bad idea. About as secure as latching a screen door, but it will still help! Irfan is the best MS Windows image viewing progam I've found. It can also convert, so you could open your .bmp and save-as an .jpg (or .png, or ???). The real strength of pdf is that it's a part of postscript, which is a vector graphics and text format. As such, it is resolution independant. Zoom in as far as your program will let you, and never see a pixel - unless your really looking at a wrapped jpeg. *smile* If you want images an vector graphics, take a look at Inkscape. -- Philip, graphics nut
