Pictures for a Publication

[jmac]

I'm printing up yearbooks and have a question on pictures. When the schools
send me the whole yearbook setup, the file is so large that it takes forever
to spool and print the job.
I got around the problem by grouping the objects per page and creating a
jpeg then replace the page with the jpeg image. This works great for picture
clarity but any Wordart images or text has pixelation around the image.
Also, I tried changing each page into a PDF but sometimes it drops pictures
out so I don't trust using this method.
It's OK for this year but I would like to educate the people that set up the
yearbooks on how to do this properly. I would think that when they scan the
pics that they can set the resolution lower but what would be the proper
resolution setting?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks.

 

[Mary Sauer]

What version Publisher are you using? Have you experimented with compressing the
pictures? A picture I compressed went from a file size of 318 kb to 79 kb. It
didn't seem to affect the print quality all that much.

 

[jmac]

Publisher 2007. I just found the compress button under format picture. If I
pick to compress all pics in publication, does this affect the Wordart pics?

 

[Mary Sauer]

I don't think so. I've tried compressing WordArt, it doesn't seem to work.