PDF Settings For Industrial Touchscreen

Hi,
I am creating an instruction manual and parts manual to be used on an industrial touch screen. OS is  Windows XP
We are using bookmarks on the left hand side and want the user to be able to use the bookmarks and have a page displayed. 
Screen sizes on the industrial machine vary from machine to machine.
Questions:
best display settings to use
image settings
pdf file size
Anything else that will make the user's experience pleasant.
Thanks much,
Doreen

Hi Doreen,
In my humble opinion :
Best display settings to use:
These are generally controlled by the workstation, but for Acrobat it is best to use large, bold type for any text, images that are sized to the most common size monitor you will be using (if you make images very large, they will appear pixilated and distorted when Acrobat has to scale it down to fit on a small screen), and feel free to use more pages than if you had to print them
Image settings:
You sort of have to take a "lowest common denominator" approach here. You don't really need more than 72dpi of resolution for an image—at the correct size for the document. I also recommend RGB as the color mode.
PDF file size:
Smaller is usually better, and the PDF optimizer (File: Save as other: Reduced Size PDF) will help to shrink your PDF's file size. Although, you needn't worry too much, as the files will be sitting on the system. If they were served via a web server to a browser, then the size is much more an issue.
Likely others may weigh in on this forum post as well?
Let us know how it goes!
Regards, Stacy

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