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rsandbergmb
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May 10, 2017
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best distiller setting for high quality images within a text document

  • May 10, 2017
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I am trying to research on PDF distiller settings. I wonder if my title above is clear?

My situation is this:  Many authors write their research papers in word (some in Latex) 2 column format. I instruct them to PDF their paper and upload it to our server.  A little history; we use to print out all papers and publish them in a book.  Now with digital, that has changed.  So I am trying to explain on how to distill there document in way that the pictures/ graphs / table images that are approx 3"w x 2.5"H will be sharp on a 72 dpi computer screen zoom in at 150-300%, but keeping the text to 72 dpi to keep file size at a minimum.

Is there a way to set a file ( .joboption) for distiller so users can download and import?

What are those settings that have been proven to work best?

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Bernd Alheit
Bernd Alheit
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May 10, 2017

Why want you use the distiller?

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rsandbergmbAuthor
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May 10, 2017

Sorry, I do not understand your reply.

If your question is suppose to be:  Why would I use distiller?

To answer that I GUESS I want to use distiller with settings (jobfile) that keeps the images at 600 dpi (that is so reader can zoom into the detailed tables/graphs), but keeps the text at 72 dpi. So file size can be as small as possible. These are graphs and images that would be best seen my larger on the page,; but for formatting purposes keep all papers in a 2 column format. I hope that is clear.  Sure I could change the format so a author could have pictures/table/graph across the whole page , but why? If I can zoom in the same pictures and get the same view after zooming.

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Brainiac
May 10, 2017

A better question might be: why would THEY use Distiller? The chances are many people working with LaTeX are on Linux and can't use Distiller. Or if they are on Mac or Windows they still probably have a set of free software that converts LaTex or dvi documents to PDF directly. Why would they invest in Acrobat just to use your job options file?

I may be completely off track; you may be working with an unusual group of users who do indeed convert using Distiller (perhaps via dvips). If you have confirmed this, we can make suggestions for Distiller parameters, indeed. Otherwise you need to understand the tools they actually do use, in order to make recommendations in their context.

Text, by the way, does not have a resolution. It uses fonts and renders at any resolution. UNLESS the user is using a TeX system that precomposes fonts at fixed resolutions; this is not ideal, but it's way too late for Distiller to fix it. Bitmapped text is catastrophic for the reading experience.

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