Re: Compress and e-mail

On 15/04/2008 Miles wrote:
> * David Pyles wrote, On 4/14/2008 17:28:
> > > On 4/14/2008 8:13 PM, Miles wrote:
> >> >> I could swear that last year when I right clicked on a
photo 
> file 
> >> >> (.jpg) and selected presumably windows "Compress
& Email" that 
> it 
> >> >> opened and was ready to be sent from TB.
> >> >>
> >> >> Now it's opening MSFT office outlook, and I can't locate
a 
> method to 
> >> >> change the default.  Or another method to compress
perhaps?  I 
> tried 
> >> >> zipping up on photo but it was only reduced by one kb!  
Of 
> course, I 
> >> >> could open each in some other program and reduce the
size, 
> etc., but 
> >> >> was looking for the easy method.
> >> >> Miles
> > > Go into your control panel under Internet Options and on the 
> programs 
> > > tab make sure Email is set to Mozilla Thunderbird.  It seems to 
> me that 
> > > windows updates sometimes set that back to Outlook.
> > > Dave Pyles
> 
> Right on, Dave, thank you!  However it still sends a very large file 
> -- 
> only a kb smaller than the original file.  I was under the impression 
> that it would compact it, but guess not.  So my only choice is to 
> always 
> use another program such Adobe or ACDSee to first reduce the size of 
> the 
> photo (presumably as a copy), then "compact & email" that.
> Miles
> 
> 
Isn't 'Compress and e-mail' provided by 7-Zip - that's what it invokes 
on my computer. But jpg's are not very compressible. If you install 
Faststone Image Viewer (free) this has a nice facility to reduce the 
size and then e-mail.

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