Would you compress it?

[Guest]

Microsoft Office Picture Manager promises to compress pictures for smaller
size and faster loading, but...

http://www.zima.net/fun_eng.html

 

[Peadge]

I'm not sure if your post deals with how slow the site loads (I have cable
and it was slow), or with the content of the red circle on the screen shot.

The site may be so slow because the DocType you use is English, yet you have
code in your HTML that is not English. This is just a guess, but the "EN" at
the end of your DocType at the very top of your source code stands for
English.

Your graphics seem to be OK as far as size goes. I didn't see any that were
huge files being displayed at smaller sizes, something that will always slow
down a site.

If you intended me to notice the circle and the resulting larger file size,
note that the type of compression selected is for "documents", not web
pages, yet still weird. I use Photoshop to optimize my graphics for the
Web.

Peadge

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi SK,

The "Microsoft Office Picture Manager" feature is not exactly part of
the Macintosh version of Office.

On the Mac you get that functionality in PowerPoint. You put a picture
onto a slide, scale it to fit the max size for the slide. The use File

Save As using the file type of PICT (picture). Cick the Options button

in the save-as dialog box and you can choose file compression.

I experimented with a 208k JPEG that I inserted onto a slide from a
file. I saved it to two files, both with compression at 72dpi (you can
select dpi in the Mac version but I don't see that choice in the Windows
screen shot you put up). When I chose "best" compression the file size
was reduced to 120k. When I chose "least" compression the file size was
just 32k. So in both cases the file was substantially compressed.
Obviously the compression labels are reversed in the dialog box, so that
is a bug.

You can report bugs in the windows version to
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

I'll send in that little bug of the Mac version, too.

-Jim

 

[Mohamed Al-Dabbagh]

Hi!

If the picture is already compressed, then probably compressors that
have no pointer of size increase due to re-encoding, will output a
larger file! You think this is a joke? No it isn't. If you are talking
about the encircled part of the image, it would be a good idea to put
a link to the original tiger picture, and post your question to
compression gurus at "comp.compression" newsgroup.

Mohamed Al-Dabbagh
Senior Graphic Designer