Adobe Acrobat: Problem Creating a PDF

Brucex64 · 3 Weeks Ago

What I am trying to do is combine 7 or 8 pages of a brochure into a pdf file. It was originally paper; the pages were scanned and cropped/resized/tweaked in Photoshop and saved as jpegs. The original file size was quite large so when I saved the jpeg I downsized it to 2400px wide per page (each image is a page). My goal is to have it view at 100% on a typical screen (1920px wide) either at actual size or fit to width. I saved them at 2400 so I figured the pdf could just be set to "fit to width" and it would shrink down a bit.

Well, after combining the files into one binder it opens at over 200% to make it fit the width, 100% page size is quite small. Why is Acrobat making my 2400px images into such small pdf pages? I don't want it to be blown up because its going to lose some quality. I could save my images at a different size but I don't know what size I need to make them. I tried saving them at exactly 1920px wide but when I view the resulting pdf at actual size it looks like its half the screen size, and fit to width is blown up to 204%!

fishingfool · 3 Weeks Ago

Hi Brucex64

It was originally paper; the pages were scanned and cropped/resized/tweaked in Photoshop and saved as jpegs.

May i ask why you saved as jpeg? Take each individual pdf scan and open it directly in photoshop to edit it. then simply click save. It will remain a pdf.
After you're done, create a new pdf (from file) and drag and drop them in the order you want. There really is no default image size. All you can really do is set acrobat's default viewing size via edit\preferences. All pdf's are different, hence the percentage viewing adjustment on the toolbar. You can resize your jpegs down to something around 1280 X ?, (keeping aspect ratio) if you like and work your way up but you'll have to play with that. How it will appear on someone else's computer will all depend on thier pdf viewer settings.