[Hidden-tech] auto conversion of photo files to smaller size

[Pat King]

Hey Stacy,

You're just trying to reduce the file size of the doc itself right? If so,
you don't necessarily need to reduce your images size outside of MS Word
(assuming you're not having trouble importing and formatting the full size
pics in Word).

What to do: Add your full sized pics to the doc. Format them however you'd
like. Then use the *"Reduce file size" *menu option in Word.

   - If on Mac. click the following menus
      - File > Reduce File Size...
   - Select one of the "Picture Quality" options from the the "Reduce File
   Size" menu
      - You can apply to "All" pictures or "Selected" pictures in the
      document.
   - Press "OK"
   - Profit - all specified images will compress to your selection within
   the doc. Your document size will be reduced to a manageable size. [image:
   Inline image 1]
   - *Disclaimer: I use Word 2011, I'm not sure if this option is available
   on earlier versions of Word (but I think so). Also, I'm on a mac, but am
   certain this option is available on PC. *


Pat King
woodpenny.com

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> At Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:18:23 -0500 Stacy Kontrabecki <
> swampdancer at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Short of importing photos I took on my better camera into Photoshop 1 by
> > 1 and reducing the file size (so I can include the photos in a report
> > document (Word, PDF) without making the report file huge), is there an
> > automatic way I can select all the photo files and resize them?
>
>
> Well, under Linux, I use a program called convert (part of the ImageMagicK
> package), a command line utility commonly installed on Linux system (and
> very
> likely available for MacOSX as well), in a simple looping shell script. It
> is
> *possible* that the ImageMagicK package has been ported to MS-Windows, in
> which case it would then be possible to create a BAT file to do this as
> well.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> mkdir qsize
> for x in *.jpg; do
>   convert $x -geometry 50%x50% qsize/$x
> done
>
> The above (BASH) script will convert every JPG file to 1/4 (1/2 as high by
> 1/2
> as wide) of its original size and store the result in the subdirectory
> named
> qsize.
>
> >
> > I should have a better idea of how to manage this, but I don't.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
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