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So I'm filling out Columbia's app and about to upload my transcript and they say please do not exceed 500KB. Are they insane? With the fancy paper most schools use for their transcripts how the hell am i supposed to get it that small without making it completely blurry and unreadable? I think I spent an hour scanning at different settings to get under 9 megs for Booth but 500kb is just crazy.

Help!

Help!

Coliver · Answer

That's really.. uhh...

Try a lower DPI?

lagomez · Answer

I am not 100 percent certain about the process as it has been a while but what I think you can do is scan it as a picture, hit copy and paste, paste it into word, and then convert it into pdf. I had to do this for a school and I was having the same problem. I know it worked and the file was reduced and very legible.

The dpi change never worked for me.

perseverance · Answer

Can you get the school to email you a copy instead of mailing it? I had the same problem and eventually just had them email me a copy. Luckily it was less than 500kb.

Jeanette · Answer

is it too blurry as a JPEG? An 11x8.5 page shouldn't be too blurry if the resolution is 800x600 or whatever.

Coliver · Answer

Scan it, and print it as a document. Except rather than print it from the printer, print it with a PDF Document Printer (Should be within Word).

3underscore · Answer

You should have the option to either save as a pdf or save and then print as pdf (which creates a pdf file). A pdf will be below that level.

malbec · Answer

the same problem here
Because my scanner automatically transform the image as a pdf and was over 500kb
what I did was to print screen, reduce the size of the images and then printed again as pdf
if you need help reducing the size of the images such let me know!

lawgonebusiness · Answer

100 dpi, save as pdf, you will get 3 pages under 300kb.

malbec · Answer

yep, one of my problems is that I my transcripts have 10 pages (international)

babyif19 · Answer

.JPG or .pdf....as long as they are readable - you can play with the size

liquidmetal · Answer

tried everything i could and got down to 1mb

its almost impossible to get files that small and still have them be readable when transcripts these days have fancy backgrounds to try and prevent forgery

shaselai · Answer

yeah 100dpi . black and white... it sucks but it is readable...

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