Thanks my friend, Rene's last post, 1 meg. tied everything up again, I wish I could fix this. Byard sent me the Koolaid PDF and I had to lose it because of size. That sounded like a great article. Thanks again for helping me out. Jimi
Jimi- Took all of 5 minutes. Done and in the mail. All 5 swaps. DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Desert Eagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:10 AM Subject: Re: SV: [VFB] Rene? > Thanks Don O, > That would take care of the dial up long time possible download at 12 > kps. Plus, I can look at it on Amanda's computer, better graphics, go > figure... Address follows, > Jimi Genzling > PO Box 192 > Lakewood, NM 88254 > Jimi > > > Rene, > Since Jimi has a cd drive, I can just copy all the swap files to a disc and > mail it to him cheap. > I think that would be easier and save a lot of time over splitting and > re-sending files. He could then forward it to another mess swapper if they > can't read it. > > Jimi, send address. > > DonO > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rene Zillmann > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 3:16 AM > Subject: Re: SV: [VFB] Rene? > > > Nick, > That is correct. I tried it as well, got the same results. > The reason is that 95% of the PDF are jpeg-files, and they are compressed > already. And compressing an compressed file gives no further results. > Otherwise, the first compress wasn't good. > Rene > > Niclas Runarsson wrote: > > You're right Don. Pictures, music etc. are hard to compress due to the > density of information in the file. I tried just now to see what it would do > to a *pdf file. The first mess file (3.75Mb) was zipped down to (3.72Mb). > The one we got the other day (533Kb) was zipped down to 482Kb. Smaller... > but not that radical. > > There are some file types where WinZip does a very good job... but there are > also file types where it doesn't make much difference at all. > > /Nick > > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Fr�n: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] F�r > DonO > Skickat: den 31 oktober 2004 05:46 > Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > �mne: Re: [VFB] Rene? > > > Jimi, > > >From what I have been told, .jpeg's don't compress well. > I'll try to send you one zipped. > > Do you have a cd drive on your pc? > > DonO > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Desert Eagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 5:09 PM > Subject: [VFB] Rene? > > > Was wondering, would it be possible to zip the last mess swap photos > with win-zip so I could receive them? 3 meg was way to much for my > dial up and server, they had to delete the message because it was > clogging up the > system > and I could never get it. Others had the same problem, like Deb I > think. Thanks, Jimi > > > > > > > > > > >
