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[Richard Johnson]

Hi Spike

the PNGs are all Publisher generated.... 1065 is a small 4 button navbar,
and is only 4kb. I'd have thought that a "portable network graphic" file
would be fast ....

I think Publisher PNG's any grouped item.... and seems to also PNG some
headings etc for some reason (but not all of them)

I'll have a try at compression on the desktop (compression within Publisher
+ web page view) and see... but I think I did that once before and wasn't
impressed....

I did resize some images within publisher and I think that keeps the
original size data as well as the resized visual image, and wonder if that
might be the root cause of some of the slowness... I'll see if I can discard
that extra data selectively or replace them with already sized pictures....

as always, thanks to you and David for sharing your time, its greatly
appreciated as are any insights into doing things better.


JPGs....

 

[Spike]

Richard

There is a difference in publisher doing resize and compression
You may want to try the compression feature

Format > Picture > compress

Apply to all pictures
Select target output web

I have had some luck compressing/resizing with external software, but have
returned to using full size images form camera etc and letting publisher
compress for the web. This also leaves your original images in tack and no
need to make copies for web pages.

Also you can turn off PNG

Tools > web page options > web site options

Unselect Allow PNG .......

Spike

 

[DavidF]

Though the PNG files may be a bit larger than GIF or JPG files and take a
bit longer to load but you *may* still elect to leave the 'allow png...'
option checked under some circumstances. But *do* use the Publisher compress
graphics tool on all the graphics in your publication and that will reduce
the file size and load time. The PNG version of some wordart and some images
will be superior quality to the gif versions in FireFox on some occasions.
Experiment with the PNG option if you find the gif image versions
unacceptable, or just compress the graphics and leave the png option
checked.

DavidF