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Compressing photos in a document
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I have a word document, a technical manual. It has lots of photos in it and this has made the document size about 101 Mbytes this is too big to email. Is there a way (utility) I can reduce the quality/size of the images automatically. At the moment I am taking each photo out, pasting it into Photoshop then resizing to 320 x 240 and saving with a jpg quality of 30% can I automate this somehow as it's taking a long time. -- Nospam |
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Compressing photos in a document
You could extract the images using the methods suggested at
http://www.gmayor.com/extract_images_from_word.htm, use SnagIt (www.techsmith.com) to batch shrink the images, then re-insert them. Whether that would shrink your document to the 2-3mb practical maximum size for e-mail is anyone's guess, but mine would be that you will get nowhere near it. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Nospam wrote: Hi, I have a word document, a technical manual. It has lots of photos in it and this has made the document size about 101 Mbytes this is too big to email. Is there a way (utility) I can reduce the quality/size of the images automatically. At the moment I am taking each photo out, pasting it into Photoshop then resizing to 320 x 240 and saving with a jpg quality of 30% can I automate this somehow as it's taking a long time. |
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Compressing photos in a document
In message , Graham Mayor
writes You could extract the images using the methods suggested at http://www.gmayor.com/extract_images_from_word.htm, use SnagIt (www.techsmith.com) to batch shrink the images, then re-insert them. Whether that would shrink your document to the 2-3mb practical maximum size for e-mail is anyone's guess, but mine would be that you will get nowhere near it. Thanks for that. I have thought about doing it in a batch but then I have to remember where each photo goes and there are hundreds of them. But I may have to resort to this method. I picked this project up from someone who didn't know about resizing and stuff. If I double click on a photo the box that appears has a compress option button and you can select the current image or all images in the document and also select the new resolution. I have tried this but it doesn't seem to work! Thanks for the advice. -- Nospam |
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Compressing photos in a document
Have you already compressed the photos in Word? There's a Compress Pictures
button on the Picture toolbar. When you use this on a single picture, Word will ask whether you want to compress all the pictures in the document. As Graham says, however, this will likely not help enough. You have two options: (1) set your mail client to break the file up into 1 MB chunks or (2) upload it to a file sharing site. I have used http://senduit.com/ with success, but I'm sure there are others that would work as well. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Nospam" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a word document, a technical manual. It has lots of photos in it and this has made the document size about 101 Mbytes this is too big to email. Is there a way (utility) I can reduce the quality/size of the images automatically. At the moment I am taking each photo out, pasting it into Photoshop then resizing to 320 x 240 and saving with a jpg quality of 30% can I automate this somehow as it's taking a long time. -- Nospam |
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