Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 03/27/2006 
12:58:49 PM:

> Wait a minute, this is not necessarily true - it is often just a matter
> of configuring the proper compression for the images.  However, it is
> better to keep a Word file in Word (*.DOC) format if you want to retain
> meta-data, embedded objects, etc.
> 
> Moreover, since a PDF is, at its essence, a TIFF + Postscript printer
> header information, it is necessarily larger than a comparable TIFF at
> any point.  Add in the text component for searchable PDF's and the file
> gets bigger still.  It is for this reason that TIFF is still the defacto
> standard for scanned paper evidence in the legal profession, even though
> PDF is the medium of choice for e-filing and e-service of process.
> 

No, a standard PDF is not an image at all, except for whatever images were 
present in the source doc.
Depending on software and options, you can create an image-only PDF or 
image+text PDF. Those are usually created from scanned images, with the 
text created by Acrobat's (feeble) OCR.

(well, 'standard' outside of RM and legal...)

cheers
Jay



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