Leo -
Per your question:
Hi everyone, Thanks for your replies, I have downloaded the IrfanView
Could someone please walk me through the process of changing my stored BMP
files using the IrfanView program converting them into a .JPG file while
reducing the size.
Instead of using File > Open, use File > Batch Conversion/Rename
Select the directory (folder) where your pics are at the top
If you only want to do bmp's, select that for Files of type
If you want the copies in the same directory, click Use this directory as
output, otherwise, select where you want them to go using Browse
Under Work as, click Batch conversion
Under Output format, select JPG
If you want to also shrink them, check Use advanced options, then click Set
advanced options and click Set new size as percentage of original, enter the
size you want and click OK
Then on the left hand side of the Batch conversion box, if you want to
convert all the bmp's, click Add all, otherwise, go down the list on the
right selecting the one(s) you want and click Add
When the list on the left is as you want it, click Start
A status window comes up and shows you each file being converted and whether
or not it converted successfully
Since you did a few of them already, they will not convert again unless you
checked Overwrite existing files in the advanced options window (which I do
not recommend); therefore, on the ones you already did, it will give you an
error stating they did not convert
All the files will have the same name as before, except for .jpg instead of
.bmp, and they will be much smaller files
You asked about how to change this in Legacy. I have never attached
graphics in Legacy, so I'm not familiar with the process, but you would want
to remove the .bmp's when you add the .jpg's or, as you mentioned, you would
end up with doubles of every picture and an even bigger PDF. Once you
finish doing this, you can move .bmp's elsewhere, although I'm not aware of
any harm it would cause leaving them there.
As for the caption, date, and description, I am not aware of a way to
transfer them (but that doesn't mean there isn't one that someone else may
be able to address), however, when I am doing something like this, I open
Notepad and copy and paste the caption, date, and description into Notepad,
then cut and paste them back into the new place I want to enter them. At
least this saves retyping all of it.
Hope this is helpful.
Karl
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