Turning a Pdf back to a scanned file in a single operation
One of the most frequent tasks I perform in Adobe includes scanning & inserting signature image(s) in a document then turning it back into an image only file before sending it as an attachment to an email. Sometimes but not always they are forms or I need to add comments or other small alterations. Therefore since I think there must lots of other people who would need to do the same there might be batch operation already setup for that.
So my question is, isn't there?
If not what is the best way of setting one up so that the result will be as good as the initial scanned image.
What I do at the moment is save the file as series of jpeg files and then recombine them into a single file. But the result is blurry even at the same resolution as the scanning resolution or even when the transition is supposed to be lossless.
I have seen other questions here about flattening a file but they are not quite the same and I know that an alternative is to use protection but once protection and encryption come into the equation then the recipients often seem to have difficulties opening them depending on the kind of readers they use. I suppose a multi-page image format would be another way but that has its own problems when a scanned pdf seem to be the best format even though there are hardly any PDF tags in there.
Thanks
Use an Acrobat Action to do this process.
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from the link on "Aperture Resources" web page at http://images.apple.com/aperture/resources/
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