poor quality image from PDF object

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kac

I'm running Office 2003 on a Windows XP SP2 OS, with Acrobat Pro 7.0. When
I scan pages into Acrobat and put the resulting PDFs into an Access DB, the
images render by Access in Reports is terrible. When I click the embedded
object in table (causing it to open in native Acrobat software), it looks
fine, however. What am I doing wrong? Or failing to do?

TIA,
Kevin
 
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Arvin Meyer [MVP]

Up through Acrobat 4.05, Adobe used a high quality ActiveX control to render
its images. It worked well in any application that supported ActiveX. Since
then, the rendering engine has been limited to Acrobat itself so when you
try to use the image elsewhere it has a massive loss of quality. I believe
that Adobe does this intentionally. The only workaround is to use another
engine (I use Win2PDF and CutePDF) for rendering the image. Even then the
result isn't as good as it used to be.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
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