Re: How workable is Vista?

David Brown wrote:
Joerg wrote:


The topper was a Word file I got from a client recently. About a dozen pages. 15 megabytes!


The most common cause for such big word files is pictures. .doc format doesn't seem to be able to store pictures in jpg - it uses a sort of mangled raw bitmap that can't be well compressed by external programs (such as zip).


Not really. Nearly all my reports and module specs contain half a dozen pictures or more. Scope plots, photos, schematics, layout sections, the works. The files size rarely gets above 1.5MB and most of them are north of 25 pages. I format any tech drawings in PNG, then import them. Images in JPEG. Keeps things rather tiny.

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