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[Rorywolf]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel It takes sooooo long to open a flyer I created on a Mac with Word.
I receive flyers all the time that open with a click. What am I doing wrong?
Please help. Thanks.

 

[CyberTaz]

There's no way to offer anything meaningful with no more than you've
included in your message...

What are you defining as a "flyer"? How did you create it? What format is is
saved in? What is the nature of the content? Is it just this one document
that presents the problem or do all files behave the same way?

Are you just referring to opening the file yourself or are you referring to
copies set to other recipients? If the latter, how are you delivering your
flyer?

What type of file are the 'flyers' you receive? How are you receiving them?

Is your installation of Office fully updated (12.2.4)? Is OS X fully updated
as well (10.5.8)?

We know nothing more about your situation than what you tell us.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Rorywolf]

There's no way to offer anything meaningful with no more than you've

> included in your message...
>
> What are you defining as a "flyer"? How did you create it? What format is is
> saved in? What is the nature of the content? Is it just this one document
> that presents the problem or do all files behave the same way?
>
> Are you just referring to opening the file yourself or are you referring to
> copies set to other recipients? If the latter, how are you delivering your
> flyer?
>
> What type of file are the 'flyers' you receive? How are you receiving them?
>
> Is your installation of Office fully updated (12.2.4)? Is OS X fully updated
> as well (10.5.8)?
>
> We know nothing more about your situation than what you tell us.
>
> Regards |:>)
> Bob Jones
> [MVP] Office:Mac
>
>
> On 4/25/10 4:15 PM, in article (e-mail address removed)2ac0,
> "[email protected]" wrote:
>

The flyer is for a benefit so it has 4 tiny thumbnail size photos and one 1 inch photo. It has a few graphics and three text boxes with text.

I saved it in .docx and pdf. It took just as long to send and open in both these formats.
It prints perfect but of course I wanted to send it out to a mailing list of 600 people.
If I want to use I Contact to send I guess I will have to recreate in their program using FireFox as their program which I pay for monthly does not support Safari??
I apologize for not being techie enough to answer your question.
Rorywolf

 

[Rorywolf]

There's no way to offer anything meaningful with no more than you've

> included in your message...
>
> What are you defining as a "flyer"? How did you create it? What format is is
> saved in? What is the nature of the content? Is it just this one document
> that presents the problem or do all files behave the same way?
>
> Are you just referring to opening the file yourself or are you referring to
> copies set to other recipients? If the latter, how are you delivering your
> flyer?
>
> What type of file are the 'flyers' you receive? How are you receiving them?
>
> Is your installation of Office fully updated (12.2.4)? Is OS X fully updated
> as well (10.5.8)?
>
> We know nothing more about your situation than what you tell us.
>
> Regards |:>)
> Bob Jones
> [MVP] Office:Mac
>
>
> On 4/25/10 4:15 PM, in article (e-mail address removed)2ac0,
> "[email protected]" wrote:
>

The flyer is for a benefit so it has 4 tiny thumbnail size photos and one 1 inch photo. It has a few graphics and three text boxes with text.

I saved it in .docx and pdf. It took just as long to send and open in both these formats.
It prints perfect but of course I wanted to send it out to a mailing list of 600 people.
If I want to use I Contact to send I guess I will have to recreate in their program using FireFox as their program which I pay for monthly does not support Safari??
I apologize for not being techie enough to answer your question.
Rorywolf

 

[Rorywolf]

There's no way to offer anything meaningful with no more than you've

> included in your message...
>
> What are you defining as a "flyer"? How did you create it? What format is is
> saved in? What is the nature of the content? Is it just this one document
> that presents the problem or do all files behave the same way?
>
> Are you just referring to opening the file yourself or are you referring to
> copies set to other recipients? If the latter, how are you delivering your
> flyer?
>
> What type of file are the 'flyers' you receive? How are you receiving them?
>
> Is your installation of Office fully updated (12.2.4)? Is OS X fully updated
> as well (10.5.8)?
>
> We know nothing more about your situation than what you tell us.
>
> Regards |:>)
> Bob Jones
> [MVP] Office:Mac
>
>
> On 4/25/10 4:15 PM, in article (e-mail address removed)2ac0,
> "[email protected]" wrote:
>

The flyer is for a benefit so it has 4 tiny thumbnail size photos and one 1 inch photo. It has a few graphics and three text boxes with text.

I saved it in .docx and pdf. It took just as long to send and open in both these formats.
It prints perfect but of course I wanted to send it out to a mailing list of 600 people.
If I want to use I Contact to send I guess I will have to recreate in their program using FireFox as their program which I pay for monthly does not support Safari??
I apologize for not being techie enough to answer your question.
Rorywolf

 

[John McGhie]

The first thing you are doing wrong is "You are making your pictures too
big".

If your photo is one inch square, it should be 92 pixels by p9 pixels, so
open it in iPhoto and Export it with a "Custom" size and set the "Max
Dimension" to 92 pixels.

I don't know how big your thumbnails are, but try 45 pixels for them.


The problem you have is that you have dragged the original photo into your
Word document, then changed the size at which Word is to display it. When
you do that, you add each original photo file to the document (say, 3 MB
each!) for a total of 15 MB. That WILL be slow

What you need to do instead is prepare the graphics you want to include at
the size you need for your purpose. In this case, your purpose is on-screen
display, so 92 pixels per lineal inch is more than enough. That will reduce
each photo from 3,000,000 bytes to 25,392 bytes. It will download and open
in a flash!

Since you are getting into this kind of work, go and do an "Introduction to
Digital Photography" or "Introduction to Photo Editing" course. Usually
your local Macintosh User Group will offer them for free, or nearly free.

Getting a feel for the real size of "pictures" and how much you can do
without, will make this task a lot easier.

Cheers

I saved it in .docx and pdf. It took just as long to send and open in both
these formats.
It prints perfect but of course I wanted to send it out to a mailing list of
600 people.
If I want to use I Contact to send I guess I will have to recreate in their
program using FireFox as their program which I pay for monthly does not
support Safari??
I apologize for not being techie enough to answer your question.
Rorywolf

--

The email below is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless I ask you to; or unless you intend to pay!

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410 | mailto:[email protected]

 

[Rorywolf]

Thank you John!!
I knew it was something to do with the pictures but I did not know where to go from there. Education is a wonderful feeling.
Thank you for your time.
Rorywolf