Need help with scanning Document's to PDF

[wade7575]

My friend got me to wipe out his PC and he is running Vista 64 Bit Home Premium and he has a Lexmark 7300 Series printer I found him a driver online that is supposed to work with Vista and all the 7300 Series Printer's,here is the problem when he scans something so he can email it the PDF File's are around 28,000kb and before they were around 200kb I know nothing about scanner's and Adobe Reader what I was wondering is what do you guy's think the problem could be is it something in Adobe that needs to be adjusted or is it that I may not have gotten him the propper driver for his Printer Scanner,also if there is a way to adjust how big the file will be in Adobe can you guy's please give me a step by step on how to this in Adobe.

[glc]

Doesn't he have the CD that came with the printer? Did you get the driver directly from LEXMARK.COM?

Adobe Reader doesn't have anything to do with this. Scan to PDF is handled by the software that comes with the printer.

[wade7575]

I got the driver from another website I think it was softpedia so I may have to try looking again,also when I was reformatting his PC I seen the disc and asked him about the printer as he had problem's with it when he got this printer he had an XP machine and the driver disc olny support's up to XP,on the disc it said it was a 7300 Series printer,I have not seen the printer to get the propper model number but I'm going to be taking a look at it and may end up just calling Lexmark,also now that I think of it I did get a driver off the Lexmark site and it said it was for a X7350 Printer and when I downloaded the driver it said cjs7300en,when I gave him the driver to install he said the PDF's were turning out to big and I asked him if the driver went in ok and if it said it was the wrong driver for the printer and he no,I find it strange that the disc he had said Lexmark 7300 Series and the driver's I got from Softpedia and Lexmark also said cjs7300.

[wade7575]

I'm trying to help a friend out who does'nt know much about PC's,he has a Lexmark X7350 and the problem is his Hardrive failed and I put in a new one and reinstalled Windows now here's the problem,when he scanned his Document's to PDF before they were 250kb now they are 25mb and I was told by someone that you can change a setting in adobe so the Document's can be changed to Tiff or Jpeg can anyone tell me how this is done as his Document's are turning out to big to been emailed.I'm not sure if you adjust it in Adobe or the Lexmark software but however it is done I can not figure it out.

[pam123]

All your friend's files are photos and he needs to change the size so they can be emailed?
Where they part of a word file initially (PDF. Printable document format.) ?

A general set instructions for changing photos to email size in Adobe is here : All About Digital Photos - Changing the size of a digital photo

[wade7575]

These are File's that he has scanned into his PC they go into his Documents and show up as a PDF.These are file's that he often writes out by hand or one that someone has given him and he takes them and scan's them into his PC with his scanner.

[pam123]

OK, PDF bloat.
Here are 2 ways to get rid of it :

Get rid of that bloat (in your PDF) « Acrobat in Education

Adobe Forums: Easily reduce size of bloated PDF

[glc]

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