Another method for decreasing data size as well as image size is to apply the Print Screen method even for the existing images. Thus, let us not manipulate the original image itself but let us open it (say, in IrfanView), zoom it to our desired view and then take a screenshot by pressing the Print Screen key, followed by pasting that screenshot in IrfanView. Next, zoom the screenshot image in IrfanView to our desired size, then copy the desired portion and paste that in another IrfanView window, finally saving it as a .gif file. However, this procedure is more complicated, but sometimes give rather similar reduction in file size compared to the above method. So, try this method only if the above-mentioned one doesn't yield a satisfactory file size.

        Let us now learn in details about the aforesaid 'printer driver' method (the 5th one) for obtaining image files corresponding to your (non-English, e.g., Assamese) document files. For a document (or a document page) taller (i.e., lengthier) than what you can see on one screen, the simpler 'Print Screen' for obtaining a corresponding image obviously doesn't work. So for them, the 'printer driver' method is the best. When installed, a printer driver software (e.g., NED Image Printer) adds a hypothetical 'printer' (ha, ha!) to your list of available printers (e.g., HP, Canon, etc.). Next, when you try to print your document from within its creating package (say, from Microsoft Word), you'll be offered the option of printing it using one of the existing real printers or by using one of these hypothetical printers (see figure below). If you have Microsoft Office 2003 within Windows XP, you might already have the MODIW - Microsoft Office Document Image Writer (printer driver) pre-installed (I didn't see it at the beginning, but later somehow got it working - I don't remember exactly how). Now, if you choose a image printing hypothetical printer (e.g., the NED_Image_Printer seen below) instead of HP, Canon, etc., you will generally be shown some options for your required image file and will finally be able to get the output image file (as if that is a printed piece of paper).


        Let us now install the two free image printers NED & PDFill. Out of them, NED is slightly difficult to install, but after the installation yields (.tif format) image-output for all files. For documents (e.g., in above figure) written using some non-English fonts such as Aadarsha Ratne Internet (a wonderful and easy-to-master free Assamese font I've downloaded from here), PDFill doesn't produce any image output, but NED or MODIW successfully does. However, unfortunately, it is very difficult to install NED & MODIW in Windows 7, and even PDFill refuses to give multi-page .tif image output within Windows 7 (I've got enough reasons to believe that 32-bit Windows XP is the best Microsoft Windows, and Office 2003 is the best Microsoft Office). NED gets downloaded as an archive file, which is then to be extracted yielding a folder (e.g., nedip2) with some files in it. Keep that folder somewhere in your hard disk, and out of the various files in it, get a copy of the NEDPRINT.INI file pasted within your Windows\System32 folder (e.g., C:\Windows\System32). Next, perform this slightly complicated procedure to install your NED Image Printer. It is unfortunate that the output image file of Free NED is always a particular file NEDIP.TIF lying within the C:\Windows\System32 folder - you must copy it to own folder and rename it (or transfer its image-contents) before its image-contents get overwritten by the next NED-printing operation! MODIW, if you could have it in place, has no such peculiar problem and is rather a fantastic work of art! On the other hand, PDFill installation is rather easy - you just need to double-click the downloaded setup file and to agree to whatever it asks.

        The image printer drivers generally offer options, on which the beauty and the data size of the output image depends (unfortunately, more is the data size, the more beautiful is your image!). To access such options for NED, click Properties within the Print dialogue box, then in the ensuing 2nd box (may choose Black & White - OK for text-containing images - or Color option here), click Advanced, and in the 3rd dialogue box, may choose Print Quality (300 x 300 dpi i.e., fine - or 100 x 100 dpi i.e., ordinary, etc.). Click OK after you've chosen your desired options. Using any of them, we can have either a one-page image (if not .gif, convertible to .gif by using IrfanView) corresponding to one page of the document (this one-page image can be directly put within your webpage) or a multi-page image in the TIFF (.tif) format. A multi-page image is obviously useless for direct insertion into an webpage - rather it is the precursor to form a (multi-page) PDF document by using a PDF printer driver such as PDFill or PrimoPDF (another wonderful, must-have freeware, downloadable from CNET). Such PDF files may be kept within your website and linked by hyperlinks from your homepage or some other webpages.

        If a PDF document is formed from a (multi-page) image instead of from the original word-processor document, it won't require fonts unavailable within the viewer's computer, and so will always be correctly seen by the viewer. However, as an image-containing document, it'll be somewhat bulkier than a PDF file directly produced from the original word-processor document - but this price needs to be borne to communicate your non-English writings to your own-language viewers. For some word-processors such as Adobe PageMaker, however, there's available a way to get around this difficulty. In the second part, we'll discuss generation of PDF file in three different possible ways.


        PDF printer driver software, whether PDFill or PrimoPDF, become available as hypothetical printers, just as was the case with the image printer drivers (did you notice PrimoPDF showing up as an available printer within the above figure?). So, to generate a PDF - whether starting from a word-processor (e.g., AbiWord), a presentation software (e.g., PowerPoint), a spreadsheet software (e.g., Excel), a Internet browser (e.g., Firefox) or a image software (e.g., IrfanView) - go for printing the file, choose the pages to print but then choose the PDF printer driver instead of a real printer. The output will be a PDF file containing the mentioned pages (stated to print) instead of printed paper-pages. In this way, even some particular pages from an existing PDF file can be obtained as another PDF file. And, all this for free as well!

        PrimoPDF allows easily accessible options for the quality (as well as file size) of the output PDF files, and so here we'll discuss it instead of PDFill. Sometime after giving the (hypothetical) print order, four simple options (Screen, Print, eBook and Prepress) are shown as follows. For inclusion in websites, the lowest-quality and smallest-size yielding Screen option generally works. If better quality is sought, then the next eBook option may be tried (you may manually judge one output and accordingly again form the PDF file).