On 02/27/2014 10:13 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
On 02/27/2014 10:01 AM, Dave Barton wrote:
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
On 02/26/2014 10:43 PM, Dale Rebgetz wrote:
There is a 10 MB file size limit, which my book exceeds due to the
included pictures.
Thomas, beginning with LibreOffice 4.1 there is a new feature where if
you right-click on an image in your document you will see the option
"Compress Graphic...".
This opens a dialogue box where you are provided with information
about
that image (including its current size), proposed compression
settings,
and a Calculate button to see the new size of that image if you
were to
accept those settings.
I have not found a way to do this on all the images at once.
Because the changes are permanent, I suggest you *first* save a
copy of
the original (large) document. That way you can try again if you
compress the images too much and loose too much image quality.
Dale.
What format and compression "level" are you using for your images?
You could always use JPG and make the image "compressed" to the
greatest
level that still a good viewable quality. Also, make sure you images
are
the "exact" size you want for the document and not need to resize it to
a smaller size in the document to fit the image area you are using.
That
will reduce the amount of "space" in the file needed to store the
image.
I have seen too many documents with nearly full page size images that
are reduced to a visible one of less that 2 inches. That just add a lot
of file size to the document that is not needed.
So, make you image out side your document the visible size and
compression level you want/need first, then you do not need to
resize it
in the document and add unneeded file space/size in your document.
Many image formats, especially jpeg images downloaded from digital
cameras, contain metadata tags (eg camera maker/model, time/date and
many others). Removing all these metadata tags can sometimes make a
worthwhile contribution to reducing the size of your image files.
A handy little program I use for resizing, compressing and stripping
metadata from images before inserting them into a document is "FastStone
Image Viewer": http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm Not OSS, but
free for personal use. A Windows only program, but undoubtedly there are
equal or better ones for other platforms.
Dave
Yes, the whole idea is to reduce all of the file size of the image
before you use it in your document. I keep forgetting about stripping
the Metadata from the image.
I use Faststone Image Viewer in Ubuntu running it in Wine. I use it to
sort and rename pictures for websites. There is also a free Windows
program called Easy Thumbnails, which works great for resizing pictures
and also making high quality thumbnails. I also run it in Ubuntu using
Wine. Both have several quirks in Wine, but nothing making them not
usable. I've not found any Linux equivalents for these. Another option
in Linux running gnome would be to install the nautilus image converter
which allows you to resize pictures directly in a folder by right
clicking on the photo or photos, and then resizing directly from the
menu without even needing to open a program.
Don
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