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At 12:34 PM 8/7/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm currently working on a user manual and am experimenting with
>different graphics file types. I'm creating my main document in Word.
>Ideally, I'd like to embed my graphics in the document, but since
>bitmaps and some other graphics file types are notorious for bloating
>file sizes, I'm avoiding them like the plague. Anyway, I started playing
>around with j-pegs and noticed that resulting file sizes were
>comparatively small. Is there any reason why this wouldn't be an okay
>file type to use? Would you guys have any other suggestions?
>
>Muchos gracias,
>Nicole
You can avoid the lossy file problems and reduce the size of the
graphics by converting them to 256 color and saving them as a .gif.
Word has no problem importing .gifs.
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