.JPG 8x10 letter saved as a .PDF for E-mail ?

Hi,

First off, My first mistake is that I still have Dial-Up.....That said, I use a Photoshop program after scanning letters and such. I have tried to "SAVE AS" the letter as a Photoshop .PDF, .PDP file and even downsized the file to a 1.75" x 2.5" File to send faster,but it's still is very large, timely file.

Is there a faster,easier way to send a compressed 8.5 x 11 Jpg as a HTML,or PDF, or just send it as a small jpg file.

The reason I'm asking is I sent a Jpg letter to my sister at her work (network) and she can view the letter,but can not print it out on her work computer. She can,however print out PDF files using her Adobe reader.

Help! Thank You!

Suggestion: Save it as a .PDF, ZIP the .PDF, then attach the .ZIP to an email to your sister.

Your sister then extracts the .PDF from the attached .ZIP, views it in Acrobat Reader and sends it to her printer.

What does the original letter look like? Does it have full color images? If not, then JPEG is the wrong format to be using, as it doesn't compress monochrome or greyscale images very well -- that's not what it was designed for.

From a size standpoint, the best savings will occur when you eliminate unneeded color information, i.e., use greyscale (256 colors per pixel, or one byte) or monochrome (2 colors per pixel, or 1/8th of a byte). A JPEG image is going to be 24 million colors per pixel (3 bytes per pixel). Monochrome results in really small files, but a scanned document may not hold up well when converted to monochrome.

If its only meant to be viewed on a monitor or printed without hopes for extreme detail, scan it a 72DPI ,this will give you a much smaller file size than say scanning at 300DPI.If saved as a .jpg using "quality 7" this will decrease the size even more and still provide a decent image for viewing.