On 19 Sep 2001, at 1:00, List-Managers-Digest wrote:
>Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:01:56 +0200
>From: Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: NEED: software for compressing JPG images
>
>I have a potential customer who will send out lots of JPG images
>via his (pretty big) mailing list. I'm trying to talk him into
>first making those JPGs as small as possible (within the
>constraints of what image degradation will be acceptable for
>him). He has Photoshop.
>
>Are there any programs out there which do a better job in
>compressing photo JPGs than Photoshop does?
>
>Greetings, Norbert.
Dear Norbert,
Please tell your client that he is much better off sending the email
out with a URL to a web server with the picture. This not only reduces
the bandwidth used (since not everyone will be interested in seeing the
picture), but also is more likely to make it through corporate
firewalls, as noted in another reply.
Additionally, sending a URL is a lot less likely to overflow mailboxes
(like Hotmail's measly 2MB) or cause dial-up users fits (still a lot of
dial-up users out here) by causing huge downloads, just to display one
simple email. I myself stopped subscribing to MP3.com's newsletter,
because it usually consisted of lots of complicated graphics, which
took forever to download, and used up too much of my mailbox space.
That said, I'm favorably impressed by Microsoft Photo Editor, which is
included with the MS Office suite. It's simple, quick, and has an
adjustable JPEG quality setting, from 0 to 100%. Image quality after
compression seems to be decent, for reasonable quality settings (60-
80%). I also encourage trying to convert the pictures to .GIF as well,
to see how it compares. For monochrome or 256-color images, .GIF will
frequently produce a smaller file than .JPG, in my experience. But it
varies greatly, depending on the picture content.
Sincerely,
Anthony J. Albert
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Anthony J. Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems and Software Support Specialist Postmaster
Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle
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