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Good afternoon, all. I'll start by admitting that I'm fairly new to PDF and web site design. I'm working for a Realtor who wants me to scan a [color] page from a magazine and put it on her site. (It's her ad, so no copyright issues there.) I've got no trouble scanning the document, but once I make a PDF of it, the file size is HUGE!

As part of my "real" job, I've pulled down users' manuals in PDF format, and some multi-page documents are less than 1MB. My single page saves off at over 1MB. I'm sure there's something I'm leaving out or doing wrong.

I know resolution plays into this. I've tried scanning at lower resolutions, but the final PDF image looks bad. And I'm hearing two ways of going about the process. One says simply to scan the page directly into Acrobat and save it as PDF. Another says to scan the image, save it as a TIFF, and then print it through the distiller. I'm sure there are more methods, but I'm looking for the _right_ one.

Can someone give me some detailed instructions for preparing this page for the web? I'm using Acrobat 5.05 and a Canon D660U scanner, and I'll be truly grateful for the help.

Thanks so much,

Dan
vt245(at)yahoo.com