I suspect what he is referring to is saving documents as word documents with compressed images, although I certainly don't know that.
Saving jpeg files as zip archives will not generally compress them at all, and in fact can slightly expand them. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Try [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:49 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [discuss] Suggestion about including photos Hi J. > Writer will not compress photos, as Word does. If you add that feature > you > will have a near-perfect word processor. I find it much better, already, > than > Word. I prefer Writer to Word, too. I get to use Word regularly, but I'm not familiar with it's image compression. What sort of compression are you referring to? Jpeg compression? OpenOffice.org saves the entire document into a compressed .zip archive, so everything, including the photos are compressed so that they take up less space on your hard drive. I'm not sure if that is the type of compression you are hoping for. > I also wish that the columns feature didn't convert everything on the > screen > to columns. If only part of a manuscript could be marked (blocked), and > then > converted to columns, it would be an even more powerful word processor. That is the function of "sections." Put your cursor where you would like the columns to start, Insert / Section, define how many columns you want, and part of your page will have columns. I hope this helps you achieve your goals in OpenOffice.org. Adrian www.tryanotherangle.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
