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Subject:Re: best way to put a long Word doc on the Web? From:David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:32:53 -0500
There are several problems here. For one, a 3 MB Word file may not
operate reliably on many systems, especially the many that have
earlier versions of Word. Thus, any of several far better solutions
might be in order.
Others have suggested .pdf: since that is already a somewhat
compressed format, you may find it is far smaller than the Word file
is.
Another possibility might be Dejavu: http://www.lizardtech.com. Like
Acrobat, this has free browser plugins and readers, and it quite often
winds up with files incredibly smaller than Acrobat--10 to 50 times
smaller or more, in fact.
On 7/21/05, Mike O. <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Zip it. Nobody wants to browse a 3 MB document from the web! The doc
> file will zip up quite small. You could also provide a PDF for the
> Word-phobic. Ask the Acrobat gurus how to optimize the PDF for
> peformance and file size.
>
> Or maybe there is some newfangled HAT (get your checkbook out!) that
> will turn your Word doc into a set of HTML files.
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