From: Karl Sorochinski (karls@mercurylink.net)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 11:19:38 CDT
actually if thr photos are in powerpoint they schould compress somewhat.
Unlike straight .jpg files which are in a compressed format. Photos in PP
are converted. This is why if add a .gif to a PP slide and then export the
slide to .gif it looks much worse than the original.
Karl
----- Original Message -----
From: "David" <eagle2002@ameritech.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list philmont" <philmont@troop47.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Philmont]: A Philmont Power Point Presentation
> Karl,
>
> Hate to say it, but pictures are the one part of any document that does
not
> compress. They are usually already compressed JPEG pictures.
>
> The text portions of documents are what really gets compressed. I don't
> think compressing it will help much if at all unless his pictures are BMP
> files.
>
> Unless you want him to reduce the size of each picture. Then you have to
> have the right software, otherwise many programs actually increase the
size
> of the file while reducing the size of the print. Sounds backwards, I
know,
> but I've used many different such programs, Windows and MAC based.
>
> David
> 8 Days to go
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Sorochinski" <karls@mercurylink.net>
>
> > Have you tried to zip it? usually pictues compress quite a bit. If you
can
> > get it a bunch smaller I may be able to provide you with storage space
> >
> >
>
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