I apologize beforehand if this is a stupid question (because I think it might be), but I cannot believe how much time I just wasted preparing clips for an email. There is an easy way to do this, right? Because here’s what I did:
1. Because I was scanning old newspaper clips, I couldn’t fit the entire thing onto my scanner. As a result, I had to scan multiple pieces of each article and save it onto my family’s PC (our scanner won’t connect to my laptop).
2. I then transferred those photos onto my laptop, where I cut and pasted together each article via Word. I currently don’t have a photo editor, so I had to use the formatting via the tool bar (!).
3. When I finally had it pieced together, I converted each article into a PDF.
4. Unfortunately, these PDFs were too large to send more than two at a time in gmail. Sooo, I opened each PDF, took 2-3 screencaps of those, and pieced those together in a new Word document/PDF, which took up significantly less space. Although they basically look the same, they are slightly blurry (mostly in comparison to the originals).
Clearly, I went about this the hard way. Does anyone have advice for how to do this in a more efficient manner? I don’t have access to the original InDesign proofs or I would have just sent those :(
Thanks!
You could also try using a
You could also try using a photocopier. A lot of them will send PDFs straight to your email.
- Phoebe
mk, has said it all.
mk, has said it all. excellent reply. helped me too infact.
Logo Design | Folder Design
-
- first of all you need to get a photo and pdf editor. if your family doesn’t already have copies of photoshop elements (or full photoshop) or a full copy of adobe acrobat you should get them both (bittorent can help you out in this department ;)).
- as for the size of the pdf’s, you can either bundle them into a zip file or lower the quality of the pdfs when saving. google around for “making pdfs smaller” or “compressing pdfs” for other suggestions. the blurriness that you’ve currently got seems very undesirable if it lowers the readability of your stuff.
- the scanning problem can be fixed by going somewhere that has a large scanner. maybe fed ex/kinko’s, maybe a public library. if you’re in college, your best bet would be your school’s library or media lab. when i had some old newspaper clips i wanted to digitize recently i went to the special collections dept of my college library (they let me use the facilities even though i’m no longer a student). they had a great device that lets you put your newspaper on a flat surface and hold the edges down with heavy magnets. you mount your camera on an overhead arm and snap a picture. of course you need your own camera for this, but it worked very well in the absence of a scanner.
hope this helps!