G'day Rainald,
Bit worried that my problem still bugged you down at the pub! But I think
your suggestion may have worked. I downloaded
www.irfanview.com as you
suggested and then using the 'image' menu, reduced the image to 25% of its
original size. I then sent it to myself as an email attachment firstly with
no luck as I couldn't open the file format it arrived in. So I thought about
you having mentioned saving it as a jpeg file and did this. I then created a
new test Word document, inserted the irfanview editted image and sent it
again. Voila, it worked. Now I will go back to my original attachment,
delete the photos and after re-sizing the originals on irfanview, reinsert
them and see what happens. But it looks promising. By the way, the document
is an overview of an incredible biography I have written and which a couple
of film producers seem to be interested in; hence my need to get this thing
done. I will keep you posted and would love to buy you a drink.
Thanks again and regards.
"Rainald Taesler" wrote:
> Spudee shared these words of wisdom:
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> > … The photos I mentioned are small in
> > dimension size, not sure about the file size.
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> Believe me or not:
> Several times tonight your problem did strike me :-)
> Even when sitting at the bar down in the local village pub, I thought
> about it ..
> And I developed another idea for an approach.
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> > I spent a bit of time
> > last night (Aussie time) splitting the attachment up into 5 seperate
> > emails with attachments but these also failed. Very frustrating!!
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> I believe You!
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> > Anyway, the original attachment, without photos will have to do.
>
> No.
> This would be just the wrong decision and it would mean just to give up
> too soon!!
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> As has been worked out in this thread, the whole thing in just "one
> piece" is too big. For sure.
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> So lets cut it into digestible pieces (several DOCs, several PDFs,
> several ZIPs [BTW: Packing PDFs into a ZIP won't bring much reduction
> in size).
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> Apart from that, my idea simply is to saddle the horse form the other
> end:
> I assume that it's just the photos being too big. Most probably you use
> rather big images and just reduced the size of their *appearance* in
> Word.
> Right?
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> As you - *now* say (and what I was sure about before) - "the photos are
> small in dimension size" (i.e. showing small in the source
> [WinWord-Doc]) but " not sure about the file size", I am pretty sure
> that just the *physical* size of the photos is the problem.
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> My suggestion:
> REDUCE the physical size of the images used and then embed them into
> the source (WinWord-Doc) again.
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> Should you not have something like "Photoshop", just use the really
> fantastic all-purpose freeware tool IrfanView
> www.irfanview.com
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> Open all of the images (one by one) and reduce the size; adjust the
> *physical* size to the size needed in the document and save them (with
> a different name [in order to keep the originals untouched]).
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> Then edit the WinWord document again and replace the current images wit
> the reduced ones.
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> Check the file-size of the resulting document.
> Should it still be too big, cu it into pieces and then convert the
> parts to PDFs or - if this preferred way is not viable - pack them into
> ZIPs.
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> HTH
> If any further questions, pls ask them.
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> Rainald
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