OLE Links and Document loading or painting performance

[Jayawanth]

In my book there are 400+ links to jpg files. The image size in the book is
not finalized yet. Currently I am linking to the thumbnails which has an
acceptable level of performance during display or loading.

If I were to point to a large file (say 3MB) instead and resize the links in
my document to the required size will it slow down the loading and display
significantly?

Thanks,
Jayawanth

 

[macropod]

Hi Jayawanth,

Yes, the time taken to render a page on-screen and/or print the page is affected by the image size. If the image is larger than you
need for the size and resolution you'll be printing at, then all you're doing is slowing things down unnecessarily. Of course,
optimising the image sizes also takes time, so you'll have to decide on the merits of either approach.

For development purposes, you can let Word scale-up your thumbnail images to the required final size, then simply change the links
later on - rather than reinserting the final images. If your thumbnails and final images have the same filenames, but they're in
different folders, you could either:
.. swap the folder names,
.. replace the thumbnails with the finals in the existing thumbnails folder, or
.. redirect the links to the 'finals' folder.
For a tool to expedite the latter, see my Field Link Updater at:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=261488

Cheers