Actually, I know of several duplex scanning systems that generate PDFs
directly. My friend owns one and he scanned a large number of Atari
documents with it.
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Subject: Re: The TIFF versus JPG debate
Barry Watzman wrote:
Re: I thought
PDF's could just be used to *encapsulate* regular TIFF's?
I.e., in much the same way that they can encapsulate JPEGs, etc.
It can; in fact, when you create a PDF from a scanner, encapsulation is
all
that Acrobat is doing, it's the scanner software
that determines the
format,
which can be tiff, jpeg or some other formats that the
scanner software
supports. But by default, it is almost always JPEG.
Hmmm... I don't know how to "create a PDF from a scanner". <:-)
I typically scan documents to TIFF files. Then, open Acrobat
(not Acrobat Reader) and paste the document in along with any
added text, etc.
So, it was my understanding that Acrobat did NOT further process
the TIFF -- nor a JPEG, etc. Rather, just "held it in place
on the page"
?