Thanks for the feedback.
Glad to hear that it might work better this way.
All the best for your biography project!
Regrads
Rainald
P.S. Thanks for the kind invitation. It's a bit far, however, from
Germany to "down under" ;-)
Spudee shared these words of wisdom:
> 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:
>>
>>> … The photos I mentioned are small in
>>> dimension size, not sure about the file size.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>> 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!!
>>
>> I believe You!
>>
>>> 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!!
>>
>> As has been worked out in this thread, the whole thing in just "one
>> piece" is too big. For sure.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> My suggestion:
>> REDUCE the physical size of the images used and then embed them into
>> the source (WinWord-Doc) again.
>>
>> Should you not have something like "Photoshop", just use the really
>> fantastic all-purpose freeware tool IrfanView
>> www.irfanview.com
>>
>> 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]).
>>
>> Then edit the WinWord document again and replace the current images
>> wit the reduced ones.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> HTH
>> If any further questions, pls ask them.
>>
>> Rainald