On 14 Dec 2009, at 14:43, Willie Wong wrote:
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(b) If the Big Wig is already happily letting the computer sign those
documents for him, is it prohibitive to try the non-technological
measure? E.g., ask the Big Wig to provide another image of his
signature?
Oh, for sure.
I just didn't expect it to be this complicated. I expected to be able
to open the document and pretty much to be able to click on the file
to ascertain it's file size. I expected to be able to turn around
quickly to the boss and say "you'd have saved all this file space if
you used a 20kb version instead".
When I posted here I was kinda expecting someone to be able to suggest
a 2- to 5-minute fix. I had no idea it would be this complicated, and
now I'm mostly only interested because it has become an interesting
problem.
(c) If the image file is that big, it is probably because the
original that got included in the doc file has a ridiculously high
resolution (maybe they just scanned the signature in, cleaned it up a
bit? My signature usually fits in a 1/2 inch by 2 inch block, if
scanned at 24-bit color and 600 dpi, this makes almost a 1M raw
image). I hope if the processing/storage/bandwidth tax is high
enough, an "upstream" fix would not be ruled out directly.
Yeah, I think I have a copy of my signature here which was scanned at
about that kinda resolution, stored as a bitmap & has a large
filesize. When I discovered how badly it slowed down Word when
actually trying to place it in a document it got replaced with a much
smaller gif version. The improvement in performance that this
eventuated was, to me, slightly unexpected - surely whatever the
original format, both images must be stored in RAM in about the same
way.
Stroller.
