Windows Fax and Scan: Scan using smaller files

Is it possible to scan a document to a .pdf file using Windows Fax and Scan?
If not, does anyone have a suggestion as how to scan multiple pages into a
smaller file format than .tif?

The only way to scan to .PDF would be if you have a .PDF writing application
that interfaces with a scanner; WF&S only knows how to write .TIF files.
You can scan from Photo Gallery also and it knows about more picture
formats. As to combining scans into a single document, a .PDF writer should
be able to do this; Microsoft Office Document Imaging will definitely do
this, I've used it before to combine individual scans into a multi-page
document. As a matter of fact, I've also used MODI to print one of these
combined scan documents to a .PDF "printer" (CutePDF is an example).

Hal
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"MillworkMarketing" <MillworkMarketing@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:7728BD47-4E6B-4F06-A920-9814DF0744B4@microsoft.com...
> Is it possible to scan a document to a .pdf file using Windows Fax and
Scan?
> If not, does anyone have a suggestion as how to scan multiple pages into a
> smaller file format than .tif?

Thank you, Hal

"Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]" wrote:

> The only way to scan to .PDF would be if you have a .PDF writing application
> that interfaces with a scanner; WF&S only knows how to write .TIF files.
> You can scan from Photo Gallery also and it knows about more picture
> formats. As to combining scans into a single document, a .PDF writer should
> be able to do this; Microsoft Office Document Imaging will definitely do
> this, I've used it before to combine individual scans into a multi-page
> document. As a matter of fact, I've also used MODI to print one of these
> combined scan documents to a .PDF "printer" (CutePDF is an example).
>
> Hal
> --
> Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@kvoa.com
> Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
> http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
> KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
> Live at Hot Licks - www.badnewsbluesband.com
>
> "MillworkMarketing" <MillworkMarketing@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:7728BD47-4E6B-4F06-A920-9814DF0744B4@microsoft.com...
> > Is it possible to scan a document to a .pdf file using Windows Fax and
> Scan?
> > If not, does anyone have a suggestion as how to scan multiple pages into a
> > smaller file format than .tif?
>
>
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