OT – Best Format for Scanned E-mail Attachments

[TemekuT]

Mandarin please, Flu :))

…daughter just married a Chinese guy…I am going to have brilliant and beautiful grandkids that play classical piano…

…I just completed selling a 34 unit condo complex in LA County to all Asian buyers, mostly Chinese…talk about full immersion into the Chinese culture and way of doing business…

[ucodegen]

One of the problems of going from an ‘image’ to a PDF, is that the file generally gets larger. PDFs store images as compressed rasters. PDFs then have to ‘wrap’ the image with the PDF encapsulation. As a result, PDFs do not make the image smaller– but do make it more portable. The exception to the PDFs make it bigger, is when the image that is generated by your software is not compressed (applies to some TIFF and BMP generators – though some may do a RLE type compression).

JPGs are compressed by ‘definition’. A PDF of a JPG is always going to be bigger.

As ‘flu’ noted, pay attention to what resolution you need and how much detail in the color. Some scanners will allow you to generate a ‘fax’ format (1 bit per pixel with primitive RLE-Run Length Encoding). This will tend to be the smallest, and is useful for sending documents – but not images. Another format to consider is also PNG.

Another way to create ‘PDFs’ is to use PDFCreator, which is a printer driver that looks like a printer but creates PDFs instead of printing.

[ucodegen]

One of the problems of going from an ‘image’ to a PDF, is that the file generally gets larger. PDFs store images as compressed rasters. PDFs then have to ‘wrap’ the image with the PDF encapsulation. As a result, PDFs do not make the image smaller– but do make it more portable. The exception to the PDFs make it bigger, is when the image that is generated by your software is not compressed (applies to some TIFF and BMP generators – though some may do a RLE type compression).

JPGs are compressed by ‘definition’. A PDF of a JPG is always going to be bigger.

As ‘flu’ noted, pay attention to what resolution you need and how much detail in the color. Some scanners will allow you to generate a ‘fax’ format (1 bit per pixel with primitive RLE-Run Length Encoding). This will tend to be the smallest, and is useful for sending documents – but not images. Another format to consider is also PNG.

Another way to create ‘PDFs’ is to use PDFCreator, which is a printer driver that looks like a printer but creates PDFs instead of printing.

[ucodegen]

One of the problems of going from an ‘image’ to a PDF, is that the file generally gets larger. PDFs store images as compressed rasters. PDFs then have to ‘wrap’ the image with the PDF encapsulation. As a result, PDFs do not make the image smaller– but do make it more portable. The exception to the PDFs make it bigger, is when the image that is generated by your software is not compressed (applies to some TIFF and BMP generators – though some may do a RLE type compression).

JPGs are compressed by ‘definition’. A PDF of a JPG is always going to be bigger.

As ‘flu’ noted, pay attention to what resolution you need and how much detail in the color. Some scanners will allow you to generate a ‘fax’ format (1 bit per pixel with primitive RLE-Run Length Encoding). This will tend to be the smallest, and is useful for sending documents – but not images. Another format to consider is also PNG.

Another way to create ‘PDFs’ is to use PDFCreator, which is a printer driver that looks like a printer but creates PDFs instead of printing.

[ucodegen]

One of the problems of going from an ‘image’ to a PDF, is that the file generally gets larger. PDFs store images as compressed rasters. PDFs then have to ‘wrap’ the image with the PDF encapsulation. As a result, PDFs do not make the image smaller– but do make it more portable. The exception to the PDFs make it bigger, is when the image that is generated by your software is not compressed (applies to some TIFF and BMP generators – though some may do a RLE type compression).

JPGs are compressed by ‘definition’. A PDF of a JPG is always going to be bigger.

As ‘flu’ noted, pay attention to what resolution you need and how much detail in the color. Some scanners will allow you to generate a ‘fax’ format (1 bit per pixel with primitive RLE-Run Length Encoding). This will tend to be the smallest, and is useful for sending documents – but not images. Another format to consider is also PNG.

Another way to create ‘PDFs’ is to use PDFCreator, which is a printer driver that looks like a printer but creates PDFs instead of printing.

[ucodegen]

One of the problems of going from an ‘image’ to a PDF, is that the file generally gets larger. PDFs store images as compressed rasters. PDFs then have to ‘wrap’ the image with the PDF encapsulation. As a result, PDFs do not make the image smaller– but do make it more portable. The exception to the PDFs make it bigger, is when the image that is generated by your software is not compressed (applies to some TIFF and BMP generators – though some may do a RLE type compression).

JPGs are compressed by ‘definition’. A PDF of a JPG is always going to be bigger.

As ‘flu’ noted, pay attention to what resolution you need and how much detail in the color. Some scanners will allow you to generate a ‘fax’ format (1 bit per pixel with primitive RLE-Run Length Encoding). This will tend to be the smallest, and is useful for sending documents – but not images. Another format to consider is also PNG.

Another way to create ‘PDFs’ is to use PDFCreator, which is a printer driver that looks like a printer but creates PDFs instead of printing.

[SK in CV]

A pdf creator that I really like is DeskPDF from docudesk. It’s pretty cheap, I think like $30 full price for the top version. I think they may have some lower cost versions too. Like most of the pdf creators, it works as a print driver. So anything you can print, you can turn into a pdf. The reason I like it a bit better than some of the others is that it works for larger size documents. It will create a pdf designed to be printed 11×17 (instead of blowing up a document designed for smaller paper.) Some people will never need that, but it comes in really handy when it is needed. It will go up to plotter size. Has lots of other nice options if you need to create lots of individual pdfs. Very simple to use, as are most of these pdf creators.

One thing that hasn’t been addressed (i dont think) is email attachment file size limits. At one time, I know that aol and yahoo both had limits of like 3 MB. I believe the default for MS exchange is 5MB, but that can be overridden to no limit in or out. That’s how I have my mail server set up, but I still get calls from clients that email was rejected because it exceeded file size limitations. I suspect that it’s at their end, exceeding their send limit, but there’s no way I could find to actually trace where the rejection is coming from.

[SK in CV]

A pdf creator that I really like is DeskPDF from docudesk. It’s pretty cheap, I think like $30 full price for the top version. I think they may have some lower cost versions too. Like most of the pdf creators, it works as a print driver. So anything you can print, you can turn into a pdf. The reason I like it a bit better than some of the others is that it works for larger size documents. It will create a pdf designed to be printed 11×17 (instead of blowing up a document designed for smaller paper.) Some people will never need that, but it comes in really handy when it is needed. It will go up to plotter size. Has lots of other nice options if you need to create lots of individual pdfs. Very simple to use, as are most of these pdf creators.

One thing that hasn’t been addressed (i dont think) is email attachment file size limits. At one time, I know that aol and yahoo both had limits of like 3 MB. I believe the default for MS exchange is 5MB, but that can be overridden to no limit in or out. That’s how I have my mail server set up, but I still get calls from clients that email was rejected because it exceeded file size limitations. I suspect that it’s at their end, exceeding their send limit, but there’s no way I could find to actually trace where the rejection is coming from.

[SK in CV]

A pdf creator that I really like is DeskPDF from docudesk. It’s pretty cheap, I think like $30 full price for the top version. I think they may have some lower cost versions too. Like most of the pdf creators, it works as a print driver. So anything you can print, you can turn into a pdf. The reason I like it a bit better than some of the others is that it works for larger size documents. It will create a pdf designed to be printed 11×17 (instead of blowing up a document designed for smaller paper.) Some people will never need that, but it comes in really handy when it is needed. It will go up to plotter size. Has lots of other nice options if you need to create lots of individual pdfs. Very simple to use, as are most of these pdf creators.

One thing that hasn’t been addressed (i dont think) is email attachment file size limits. At one time, I know that aol and yahoo both had limits of like 3 MB. I believe the default for MS exchange is 5MB, but that can be overridden to no limit in or out. That’s how I have my mail server set up, but I still get calls from clients that email was rejected because it exceeded file size limitations. I suspect that it’s at their end, exceeding their send limit, but there’s no way I could find to actually trace where the rejection is coming from.

[SK in CV]

A pdf creator that I really like is DeskPDF from docudesk. It’s pretty cheap, I think like $30 full price for the top version. I think they may have some lower cost versions too. Like most of the pdf creators, it works as a print driver. So anything you can print, you can turn into a pdf. The reason I like it a bit better than some of the others is that it works for larger size documents. It will create a pdf designed to be printed 11×17 (instead of blowing up a document designed for smaller paper.) Some people will never need that, but it comes in really handy when it is needed. It will go up to plotter size. Has lots of other nice options if you need to create lots of individual pdfs. Very simple to use, as are most of these pdf creators.

One thing that hasn’t been addressed (i dont think) is email attachment file size limits. At one time, I know that aol and yahoo both had limits of like 3 MB. I believe the default for MS exchange is 5MB, but that can be overridden to no limit in or out. That’s how I have my mail server set up, but I still get calls from clients that email was rejected because it exceeded file size limitations. I suspect that it’s at their end, exceeding their send limit, but there’s no way I could find to actually trace where the rejection is coming from.

[SK in CV]

A pdf creator that I really like is DeskPDF from docudesk. It’s pretty cheap, I think like $30 full price for the top version. I think they may have some lower cost versions too. Like most of the pdf creators, it works as a print driver. So anything you can print, you can turn into a pdf. The reason I like it a bit better than some of the others is that it works for larger size documents. It will create a pdf designed to be printed 11×17 (instead of blowing up a document designed for smaller paper.) Some people will never need that, but it comes in really handy when it is needed. It will go up to plotter size. Has lots of other nice options if you need to create lots of individual pdfs. Very simple to use, as are most of these pdf creators.

One thing that hasn’t been addressed (i dont think) is email attachment file size limits. At one time, I know that aol and yahoo both had limits of like 3 MB. I believe the default for MS exchange is 5MB, but that can be overridden to no limit in or out. That’s how I have my mail server set up, but I still get calls from clients that email was rejected because it exceeded file size limitations. I suspect that it’s at their end, exceeding their send limit, but there’s no way I could find to actually trace where the rejection is coming from.

[TemekuT]

Thank you all for your input. I really appreciate all of you taking the time to educate me!

[TemekuT]

Thank you all for your input. I really appreciate all of you taking the time to educate me!

[TemekuT]

Thank you all for your input. I really appreciate all of you taking the time to educate me!

[TemekuT]

Thank you all for your input. I really appreciate all of you taking the time to educate me!

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