Re: Best format to post schematics?

["Kurt Delaney" <kurt_dot_delaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you "print" directly to a PDF?  I think the problem you are seeing is
that you are using your application to create a .png file, which is raster
graphics.  Then you are trying to convert that file into an Acrobat file.
That will never work well, because the original vector graphics information
was lost during the rasterization process of saving it to a .png.

If you have Acrobat installed, you should have a virtual Acrobat printer
available.  When you "print" to that virtual printer, the vector information
should be passed to Acrobat, and then Acrobat will create a much better
document;  one that can be scaled easily w/o artifacts and will be much
smaller in size.

Kurt

"GregS" <szekeres@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <1140795196.056495.285150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"William at MyBlueRoom" <wrichardson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I've recently setup a web site www.myblueroom.com with a handful of
> >schematics on it.
> >
> >Currently they (you click on the thumbnail) an get a 200/300dpi .PNG
> >file.
> >
> >I would like to use .PDF but is this a better format? or .GIF?
> >
> >Also I could remove the color, just post B&W to keep the size down...
> >
> >Suggestions?
>
> I can zoom in in Acrobat reader. I converted Ladybug, but its aparently
> has some Jpeg trash when you zoom in. Perhaps converting top
> PNG?? Pdf file is 4 times bigger. Perhaps Acrobat is creating the trash?
> PNG looks fine, as long as the drawing has big enough lettering.
> I'm printing now to see what it looks like.
>
> greg