Image Resizer will resize several selected photos.
1300 kb photo reduced to 55 kb.
The reduced photos are saved with (small) added to the name.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
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Ronald Sommer
: 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
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