I use a Mac, which comes with an app that deals with PDFs, and I also have a graphics design app that handles PDFs, Canvas X Draw. The size of a document is based on how it was created and then saved. A scan is always bitmap, which is tiny individual pixels that make up the text and takes a lot of space, but if the page is created in an app like Nitro or Canvas, or Acrobat and saved as a PDF, the text is vector, which is done with algorithms and makes the text "live." Vector takes up much less space than bitmap.
For a short time I played uke with a harmonica player, he would create a chart on his computer, print it, then delete it. If he needed to change it in some way, he scanned it back into the computer but couldn't figure out how to make changes because the text was not live anymore. He asked me what app he needed to convert the scan back into live text. The only answer to that question is to not delete the original file. For some reason he thought he always had to delete the documents from the computer and wouldn't let go of that idea. Needless to say, as an advanced computer user, I didn't last long playing with him.
This is Michael Kohan in Los Angeles, Beverly Grove near the Beverly Center
9 tenor cutaway ukes, 4 acoustic bass ukes, 12 solid body bass ukes, 14 mini electric bass guitars (Total: 39)
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