Martin Rice on tue 4 jun 02
Hi, All:
Hope some of you are interested in this. Probably lots of you know this =
already, but I just learned it and am sure some of you might be able to =
use it.
When doing a web site with Front Page -- as I know several of you do -- =
there's a built-in way to compress pic size that I find absolutely =
fantastic. I work on maintaining three different sites. I've always been =
conscious of the relationship between .jpg size and performance -- =
duh... who hasn't? -- and consequently have used a great number of .jpg =
compressing utilities. Eventually found my favorite to be advanced jpeg =
compressor.
However, recently, one of the guys I'm doing a web site for gave me some =
.jpgs that were humongous -- 2.5 to 4.5 megs each. I tried everything to =
get them down to really manageable size. They had to be resized because =
they were huge in format as well as kbytes. To make a long story short, =
I decided to try the following:
Load the monster pic into Front Page. Click the absolute positioning =
button. Resize the pic by using the drag handles. Then -- this is the =
punch line -- click the resample button. Absolutely phenomenal. 2.5 meg =
.jpg reduced to about 10K with highly acceptable quality. Lord it's a =
miracle!!!!
Hope this helps some of you.
Best regards,
Martin
Lagunas de Bar=FA, Costa Rica
PS It's also a great way to reduce pics that you just want to attach to =
emails to send friends if you have Front Page.
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