Added 62kb jpg file & email jumps 2MB in size - why?

[Colin Coady]

I start off with an email form thats 151 kb in size. When I insert a 62 kb
jpg image file the email size goes to 2MB. I want to keep the size down
because my reciepients still use dial up. How can I fix this?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The image has to be converted into rich-text format if you're including the
form definition in your message. In general, you shouldn't be sending forms
to recipients, just the data.

 

[Colin Coady]

I'm inserting the image into a rich-text email form that's not including the
form defination. Is there somthing I'm misunderstanding? How do I convert a
jpg image to rich-text format?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

So you're adding the image to the individual email message, not the form
design? (Item = message, Form = layout/code template)

Outlook does whatever it needs to do to embed the image. RTF is "wordy" when
it comes to images. It doesn't have the advantage of compression that a .jpg
attachment does. I just embedded a 65kb image into an RTF message and the
size jumped to 1.4mb.

An HTML format message would be much smaller. So would attaching the picture
to an RTF message, instead of embedding it.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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