Flatcapdriver

I have a Word document containing some JPEGs which I cannot e-mail due to it's size which is 32,468 KB. I have tried Winzip but it only reduces to 31,466 KB. How can I reduce the file size, or at least e-mail it? I don't want to lose too much of the JPEG quality.

Cheers in advance.

Tidgy

try opening in paint and reducing size to 90% then resaving as a jpeg, sometimes works just resavng but to be 32mb must be huge

lightning101

Use a spandisk set and e-mail it in 30 zip or rar files. It is one of the option of winzip and winrar.

mike1210

yeah it won't compress much as JPEG's are allready compressed. Is the file limit size 10 meg. If so just break it up into seperate docs and send them individually. Another way could be to break it up into smaller zip files. Not 100% sure zip can do it but i know winRAR can. The end user would then need to rejoin it with with all the zip files. Ah edited to add above answer confirms winzip does support this

bob269

Or burn it to CD and use good old fashioned post

Or upload it to the net on one of the free web file host type pages.

Hanslow

How many jpegs are in the document? What size are the images and what quality level have they been saved/imported as? They may be very large original image files at a high quality which will increase the amount of data stored in the word doc, and most of that quality is probably not needed.

jbryant

Just open your 30Mb Word document. If you're using Word 2003 (and probably earlier versions in a similar way), right click on one of the pictures, select "Format Picture" and then click on the "Compress" button. Make sure that "All pictures" and "print resolution" is selected and then apply the changes.

I have just done this as a test with a Word document that I have imported 20 8Megapixel snaps into. The filesize went down from 36Mb to 1.5 Mb and the on-screen resolution has not gone noticably downhill. Now email away to your heart's content!

What this does mean is that your pictures won't scale up to A3 again! But I guess you don't care about that

Hope this helps!
Joolz

Flatcapdriver

I am using Windows 2000 and although the 'format pictures' option is available it doesn't show the 'compress' feature. Am I looking in the wrong place?

lightning101

Yes we all know that, but he did put a disclaimer about 'no' degredation in quality through picture compression

bob269

It would of got there by now

Flatcapdriver

I have sent the assignment via snail male but I needed the date stamp of an e-mail as proof of completion. Now I'm less worried about compression/degradation so how do I make it e-mail friendly.

MBA

Use this http://beta.yousendit.com/

jbryant

Errr no.

He said "I don't want to lose too much of the JPEG quality" which I qualified in my post. Side by side I can't see the difference on screen unless I zoom in to silly levels.

Anyway he has Word 2000 - perhaps easist to downgrade the picture size prior to import if that compress function is not in there as a standard feature. Most decent freeware image editors would be able to do this, but involves more editing of the document unfortunately.

Joolz.

jbryant

Sorry - thought you said you had Word 200 when in fact you said Windows 2000. It's a feature in Word 2003. Depends what version of MS Office you're using. Word 2003 that comes with Office 2003 does have the feature. Older versions of Word/Office may not.

On my machine, after selecting Format Picture, select the 'Picture' tab on the dialog box that pops up. Compress is now in the lower left of the pop-up.

HTH!
Joolz