Re: MS Word & BMP's

["Huber, Mike" <Mike -dot- Huber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM>]

If you are displaying 256 colors when you take the screen capture,
you may want to try reducing the number of colors to 16. Saves
resources, and most of the time doesn't lose anything.

I use the 16 color dither function in WINGIF.

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From:  Matt Ion[SMTP:mion -at- nextlevel -dot- com]
Sent:  Monday, October 16, 1995 7:21 AM
To:  Multiple recipients of list TEC
Subject:  Re: MS Word & BMP's

On Sat, 14 Oct 1995 23:29:25 -0400 you wrote:

>Got a user's manual am just finishing for draft delivery Mon.  Has about
30
>..bmp's of screen captures in it and currently runs about 13 Mb.  Sat
around
>3-4 hrs Fri WIATING for Word to do things like tweak margins/header
location,
>saving, etc.  Am using a 90 Mhz Pentium with 16 Mb RAM!

Welcome to the wonderful world of Windows.  "Hurry up and wait" is
Microsoft's
second-favourite slogan (right after, "If you can't make it good, make it
LOOK
good." :-)

>What's the best way of incorporating the .bmp's that won't bog down the
>system?

Try using a smaller image format... GIFs should be substantially smaller
with
little or no loss of quality.  Compressed TIFs should work as well, with
slightly less space savings.




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