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Faculty Instructional Technology Resources -
Best Practices
PDFs
Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is the most common way of putting
paper texts online. Advantages include:
- Easy to print; wastes no ink or paper printing web site graphics
- Original formatting is retained - especially important for printable
forms
- Can make PDFs of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents
- PDFs of PowerPoint slide handouts are considerably smaller than the corresponding
slides and print more efficiently.
The biggest concern when creating PDFs is to make them as small as possible.
Scanned documents can be turned into PDFs with sizes of 10Kb per page, but
often weigh in at 500Kb per page. This wastes server space and makes PDFs
very difficult for students to download and save, especially over a modem.
Instructions for creating PDFs
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