From: "Frank Haber" 

>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.)

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