e-mail a hand-drawn sketch

Winfield Hill · 2005-08-25T20:29:15+00:00

The amount of effort required to email someone a hand-drawn sketch,and insure they can view it OK is excessive. Clearly I haven't yetfound the optimum set of methods for this task. Suggestions? :>)-- Thanks, - Win

Aug 25, 2005 85 Replies

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qrk 21 years ago

PDF isn't a image format. Acrobat will store images in a number of formats. Jim, your drawings from Schematics and PSpice are probably stored as CCITT group 4. For line art, CCITT group 4 is hard to beat for black & white. If you have colorful line drawings, then I use ZIP compression of the image in Acrobat's settings with no downsampling.

For word processor documents, my favorite is PNG for line drawings like schematics.

As for your viewing of image files, if you view gif, png, pcx type images at something less than 100% you get aliasing. Some viewers will attempt to anti-alias the image. You can turn off smoothing in Acrobat which speeds up page redraw time at the expense of an aliased image.

Mark

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James Waldby 21 years ago

Winfield Hill asked about

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If your scanner or its software doesn't have an email button, then do the following to speed up the email step:

Beforehand (ie one time only) create a desktop shortcut to the directory where you typically will save the scan. [Ie, open the directory above that one, then right-drag the proper folder name to desktop, or perhaps to taskbar, and select Create Shortcut.]

After you do a scan, click the shortcut created above.
Right-click the item to be emailed and select Send To... and select email. Email program will open a Compose window with item attached. [If you want to attach multiple items, highlight them and then right-click.]

-jiw

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Winfield Hill 21 years ago

Thanks Jim, that's a good one!

Thanks, - Win

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Robert Latest 21 years ago

If you insist on doing this in Windows it might be cumbersome. In the Unix world you have primitive shell scripts to glue everything together. Takes a bit of time though, but in my experience learning the ropes once and saving time in the future is moore efficient (and fun) than to repeat the same dozen of mousecklicks over and over again. Of course an OS mainly aimed at secretaries and home use doesn't have to be geared towards efficient professional use.

I thought so.

robert

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Fred Abse 21 years ago

Every one of Jim's pdfs I've seen has had drawings in vector format inside. I've extracted a few as dxfs.

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