Bitmap file in e-mail

[Gerry]

I mailed a *.bmp file as attachment and when the receiver tried to print the
one page file, the fonts printed in supersize and after page 6, he stopped
the printing. How can one adjust the font-size and which program should be
used to open it? Paint says: File is too large to open.
He is using Win98-SE.
Thanks,
Gerry

 

[Tom]

I mailed a *.bmp file as attachment and when the receiver tried to print
the one page file, the fonts printed in supersize and after page 6, he
stopped the printing. How can one adjust the font-size and which program
should be used to open it? Paint says: File is too large to open.
He is using Win98-SE.
Thanks,
Gerry

Ask question in a Win98 newsgroup.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion

 

[Gerry]

Tom, thanks for answering, but I am using Windows XP-Home and this is the
right Newsgroup and unless you know a fix, just ignore it.
Gerry

 

[Malke]

I mailed a *.bmp file as attachment and when the receiver tried to
print the one page file, the fonts printed in supersize and after page
6, he stopped the printing. How can one adjust the font-size and which
program should be used to open it? Paint says: File is too large to
open. He is using Win98-SE.
Thanks,
Gerry

A *.bmp file is a bitmap, an uncompressed graphics file. That means the
file was probably pretty large. If you want to send pictures to
friends, a better solution is to first reduce the image size and save
as a .jpg instead. One of the XP Power Toys gives you the option to
resize the image with a right-click:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Or you can use a free program like IrfanView (www.irfanview.com).

If you need more help, please post back with a better description of the
file you are trying to send.

Malke

 

[RobertVA]

Gerry wrote:




A *.bmp file is a bitmap, an uncompressed graphics file. That means the
file was probably pretty large. If you want to send pictures to
friends, a better solution is to first reduce the image size and save
as a .jpg instead. One of the XP Power Toys gives you the option to
resize the image with a right-click:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Or you can use a free program like IrfanView (www.irfanview.com).

If you need more help, please post back with a better description of the
file you are trying to send.

Malke

Caution: Some files will grow to MANY times their size (in the email or
on the disk drive) if converted to JPG. As a rule line art or other
graphic files with large areas of the same color can be stored or mailed
in a much more compact form as a GIF file. The JPG format is suited for
photographs and other images with gradual color graduations. Note that
JPG loses some detail each time it is resaved, so don't load a JPG file
and resave it. Copy JPG files around with a file management utility like
Windows Explorer. The uncompressed Bitmap (BMP) files will often be
bigger (in email or on disk) than either JPG or GIF formats. I have seen
Multi Megabyte BMP files compressed to a few dozen Kilobytes in the
conversion to GIF.

I've noticed that the Paint program in Windows XP offers an option to
expand or shrink an image to fit on a printed page. That function
affects ONLY the hard copy printout, not the storage requirements of the
image or its pixels per inch or onscreen dimensions. The Paint program
in Windows 98 doesn't offer that option. I can't rule out this
difference being the result of Paint utilizeing a standard dialog
provided by the operating system. The Paint that comes with either
version of Windows is little more than a demonstration program. Other
graphics programs typicaly have MUCH better capabilities.

 

[Gerry]

Thank you very much, RobertVA, for your explanation. "Paint" was the program
he found was unable to open the uncompressed bitmap file. I guess I have to
find a way to convert the scanned text from bmp to a jpeg file before I send
in it attached to an e-mail.
Gerry

 

[Malke]

Thank you very much, RobertVA, for your explanation. "Paint" was the
program he found was unable to open the uncompressed bitmap file. I
guess I have to find a way to convert the scanned text from bmp to a
jpeg file before I send in it attached to an e-mail.

So the file is a .bmp of some text you scanned? The scanning program
should have an option of what format in which to save the file. Choose
a .jpg instead of a .bmp.

Malke

 

[Gerry]

Thanks for your reply, Malke, however my bottom-of-the-line HP-scanner does
not offer that choice of file-conversion to jpg.
Gerry

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Download the free Irfanview image editor:
http://www.download.com/IrfanView/3000-2192_4-10335353.html?tag=lst-0-1

Tom
| Thanks for your reply, Malke, however my bottom-of-the-line HP-scanner
does
| not offer that choice of file-conversion to jpg.
| Gerry
|
| | > Gerry wrote:
| >
| >> Thank you very much, RobertVA, for your explanation. "Paint" was the
| >> program he found was unable to open the uncompressed bitmap file. I
| >> guess I have to find a way to convert the scanned text from bmp to a
| >> jpeg file before I send in it attached to an e-mail.
| >
| > So the file is a .bmp of some text you scanned? The scanning program
| > should have an option of what format in which to save the file. Choose
| > a .jpg instead of a .bmp.
| >
| > Malke
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