Inserting large pics and send as email attachment

[Tony Tee]

I just wanted to know if inserting large pics, say, 1 or 2 meg each in size,
into the word document, each with a comment underneath, (In my case, about 5
large pics altogether), will that be perfectly ok or can it corrupt the
document layout or anything which will hamper people trying to open it after
I sent it over to them?

They are quite high quality .jpg pics.

The reason I ask is because I had an assignment to complete for work, that I
had to mail them from home, they specifically requested that it had to be
sent as a .doc document attached to an email.

The email was only about 4 meg and it could not be opened on the other side,
even though it worked my side, it said it was corrupted, even when I sent
the healthty file to my own mail I could see that it had become corrupted.
It was even corrupted when I tried to open it in the sent files folder too!

 

[Terry Farrell]

There should be any problem in inserting them into a document and emailing
it as an attachment. But this is a crazy - possibly stark raving bonkers -
as a way to send jpegs. Why can you not just send the jpegs as attachments.
If they need them in a Word document, then surely they can open a blank
document and insert them? That way they won't be corrupted en route.

 

[Tony Tee]

There should be any problem in inserting them into a document and emailing
it as an attachment. But this is a crazy - possibly stark raving bonkers -
as a way to send jpegs. Why can you not just send the jpegs as
attachments. If they need them in a Word document, then surely they can
open a blank document and insert them? That way they won't be corrupted en
route.

It's not just sending a bunch of pictures though. Each picture needs to be
accpmpanied by comments.

You see, under each picture, needs to be a few sentences/comments about the
picture. Like a report, and an explanation, that goes with each picture.

 

[Terry Farrell]

First line should say. 'There shouldn't...

Terry

 

[Terry Farrell]

Then by all means insert them into a document and add captions. However, it
is not unusual for attached documents to be corrupt during transmission. To
make the attachments more resilient to the Internet zip them before sending
using a utility such as WinZip or WinRAR.

Terry

 

[Rich/rerat]

Tony Tee,
The following problems may be occurring:
1. Your, or the recipient's ISP/Mail service may have a message size
restriction for sending and/or receiving email messages. Some placed these
restriction on to prevent media file sharing such as music and video.
a. Remember, when sending an email, the process will add about 30% to
the original size of the message. So a 5MB message will grow to 6.5MB during
the transmission process.
b. If both you and your recipient both have OutlookExpress, consider
sending the message through that application. It has the ability to break a
message into smaller parts, and be reassembled at the other end. MS OUTLOOK
does not have the ability, that I could find.

2. If you are using MS OUTLOOK, and the recipient is using OutlookExpress,
or another email application. You need to send the message in Plain Text.
The native Rich Text Format, that OUTLOOK uses, cannot be read by
OutlookExpress, and some other email applications.

Other Solutions:

3. As mentioned earlier, you can use a program that will compress the file
into a *.ZIP file, such as WinZip. Or use the native *.ZIP compression
application found in Windows XP.

4. Consider using an Instant Message service such as AOL/AIM, ICQ, Yahoo
Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger (formally known as MSN or Windows
Messenger). While connected to one another in a chat, then you can send the
file to them through this application.

5. You might consider uploading the "RAW" images to a file-sharing service,
some are free, some charge a fee. Then create your Word document with links
to these files on that service.

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Have A Good Day
Rich/rerat

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