I genuinely wonder how much benefit picture compresion will achieve. With various formats the results would differ. JPEG - depends on method but could result in a reduced picture quality if added JPEG compression was applied. GIF - No size reduction is likely. PNG - No size reduction is likely. BMP - Who still uses it when PNG is available? TIFF - Has a compression method but not all tiff's are compressed. SVG - Tiny saves from this raster format anyway. What format are standard Office clipart pics?
I also wonder if Office XML format compresses the pictures independantly or just zips them up with everything else. On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:33:12 -0700 Mike White wrote: > 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 > > 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] -- Michael Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
