Chapter 9. Design Issues: Converting Printed Documents to Interactive PDF

One complaint that you will often hear about multipage catalogs, brochures, or magazine PDF documents is that they are too big to download. This is true if you do not use the proper methods of creating and compressing a file for Internet delivery. If you choose the wrong type of graphic file format and amount of compression, you could end up producing unreadable text and dreadful artifacts in photographic images.

This chapter examines best practices for converting large printed documents so they are easy to read, navigate, and download as interactive PDFs.

Design Issues: Converting Printed Documents to Interactive PDF

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