email newsletter, how to reduce size?

[Chris at the Inn]

I have publisher 2003 and I have created an html enewsletter with background,
hyperlinks, text and pics. The size (when I email it to myself) is
277KB...too big for me to email to all my recipients.

How do I reduce the size? i.e. how do I post the backgound, pics etc on my
website and have the enewsletter download them. Any other suggestions to
reduce the size would be appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[DavidF]

Chris at the Inn,

Under Tools > Options > Web tab and under the E-mail options, untick 'Send
entire publication as a single JPG...' The HTML formatted email will be a
lot smaller than a single JPG, but may not work unless the email client of
the recipient is html enabled.

You could try the compress images feature in Publisher 2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011266301033.aspx

You could reduce the size of your images in a third party image editing
program to reduce and optimize for the web before you insert them into your
newsletter.

You can import the images from your website, though some email clients might
stop the process. There is a good article here about using the insert html
code fragment feature with <img src>.

Good luck...

DavidF