Huge Word doc with only 6 images?

I just created a 3 page Word letter and embedded 6 images that I pasted from
PSP. Yes, I reduced each image (wider than tall) by dragging the handles
after embedding so that each pair of images are small enough to fit side by
side.

When I printed the letter for mailing I happened to notice the file size
property, some 51 Mbytes!

For next time is there something I can do to keep the file size down?

Len

> What is the total size of the images before you pasted them into PSP?

The jpg files are between 2.5 and 3.0 Mbytes each.  However, before pasting,
I had heavily cropped each one.

Assuming no cropping and no resizing once in Word, that would equate to 6 x
3.0 = 18 Mbytes for the images.

Len


> "Fatfreek" <mil3le3rlr@ark3ans3as.net> wrote in message
> news:47f4f76e_2@cnews...
> >
> > I just created a 3 page Word letter and embedded 6 images that I
pasted
> > from
> > PSP. Yes, I reduced each image (wider than tall) by dragging the
handles
> > after embedding so that each pair of images are small enough to fit
side
> > by
> > side.
> >
> > When I printed the letter for mailing I happened to notice the file
size
> > property, some 51 Mbytes!
> >
> > For next time is there something I can do to keep the file size down?
> >
> > Len
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

Wow, what a lesson in Word inefficiency. By the way, that original was
closer to 55 Mbytes large.

I just took that same doc, removed the 6 images, then SAVEAS to a different
name -- 34 kbytes.

I then took one of those representative raw jpgs, resized it down to 1.8
inch wide, 200 dpi, then copied it 6 times in that Word doc -- only 2.5
Mbytes.

By using PSP to do the resizing I reduced the doc size by a factor of 22.

Thanks, Trev.
Len


"Trev" <trevbowden@dsl.pipex.cominvalid> wrote in message
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>
> Fatfreek wrote:
> > I just created a 3 page Word letter and embedded 6 images that I
> > pasted from PSP. Yes, I reduced each image (wider than tall) by
> > dragging the handles after embedding so that each pair of images are
> > small enough to fit side by side.
> >
> > When I printed the letter for mailing I happened to notice the file
> > size property, some 51 Mbytes!
> >
> > For next time is there something I can do to keep the file size down?
> >
> > Len
>
> With Word it will be at print resolution for starters And Resizing by
moving
> the handles. is like zooming It does not reduce the pixel size just the
> space it takes up
>
> -- 
> Trev
> You can always tell a Yorkshire man,
> But you can't tell him much.
>
>
>

What is the total size of the images before you pasted them into PSP?


"Fatfreek" <mil3le3rlr@ark3ans3as.net> wrote in message 
news:47f4f76e_2@cnews...
>
> I just created a 3 page Word letter and embedded 6 images that I pasted 
> from
> PSP. Yes, I reduced each image (wider than tall) by dragging the handles
> after embedding so that each pair of images are small enough to fit side 
> by
> side.
>
> When I printed the letter for mailing I happened to notice the file size
> property, some 51 Mbytes!
>
> For next time is there something I can do to keep the file size down?
>
> Len
>
>
> 

Fatfreek wrote:
> 
> I just created a 3 page Word letter and embedded 6 images that I pasted
from
> PSP. Yes, I reduced each image (wider than tall) by dragging the handles
> after embedding so that each pair of images are small enough to fit side
by
> side.

What you did was to reduce the size of the image relative to
the page whilst leaving the same number of pixels in the image,
just like zooming in PSP. Because the number of pixels doesn't
change the storage requirement it not reduced.

> When I printed the letter for mailing I happened to notice the file size
> property, some 51 Mbytes!
> 
> For next time is there something I can do to keep the file size down?

Yes, paste in a smaller image.

In case you are wondering there is one advantage to Word zooming
the picture instead of discarding pixels and it is this: the
image can be made to fit the paper however you want but the
original can still be recovered from the document by copying and
pasting into, say, an image editor.