On 9 May 2005 at 12:20, Christopher Smith wrote: > I have gotten in the habit of zipping all my Finale work that I send > by email, whether or not it is to a PC person. One never knows, do > one?
Well, assuming the file compresses reasonably, it's also much more efficient. The way attachments are encoded, there is about a 33%+ overhead when sending. For instance, someone sent me a 1.3MB MP3 file over the weekend, and the email message it was in had a total size of 1.7MB (a little less than 33% overhead). A zip file is likely to be smaller than the original file, and with most data by a factor of 2 to 4 times (and more with certain kinds of data), except for files that are already compressed (JPGs and GIFs will not compress at all, and the zip file may very well be larger than the original; but as a wrapper for sending a batch of files, a zip file is still useful). So, I would suggest that, except for very small files, zipping up should be the default way everyone sends attachments. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
