From: "Chris Robinson" 

Frank Haber wrote:

> > I've tried both these suggestions already
>
> If the inserted pix are already highly compressed with a dedicated 2D
> compressor, you're not going to get a whole lot of joy with common
> algorithms.  If they're raw BMPs, etc., you'll be overjoyed.
>
> (I apparently have to make an exception for the wizbang compressor
> discussed recently in one of these forums, which apparently uses the
> hardware engines on some graphics cards and is locked to them.  I
> can't get it to run here.)

This is the thing, many of them are BMP's (things that have been scanned
in) or high-quality (and large resolution) JPEG's (usually from digital
cameras).

The people who originally put the docs together didn't resize or compress
these pics at all, and as a result the documents are huge (we're talking
100Mb+ here).  I could go through each document and manually resize each
picture, compress it and then insert it back into the document.  This would
take a large amount of my/ users time though.

I have tried to prevent this happening in the future by informaing users
about image compression.  I've also got a Linux box running a simple image
compression script on the network - users drop images in the
"INBOX", wait a minute, and they appear in the
"OUTBOX".

Chris.

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