PDF images?

LuKreme kremels at kreme.com
Tue Oct 2 21:10:56 PDT 2007


On 2-Oct-2007, at 20:40, Ashley Aitken wrote:
> I'm interested in what form the images are stored inside the PDFs?   
> I would have preferred them to supply JPEGs (or similar) but I  
> guess they couldn't or it was too much work.

Probably the images embedded in the PDF are TIFFs.  Maybe compressed  
TIFFs.

> I can save the PDFs to JPEG from Preview but is this just  
> "sampling" the image from the PDF in some way?

?? any conversion to jpeg is 'sampling' in some sense of the word.

> I'd like to get as much resolution as possible (given I can't rescan).

Most thing that will convert to jpg will let you set the quality.

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