My email attachments are huge!

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Dale

Every time I scan a document from my HP 2210 all in one,
save the document as a JPEG and then try to email it the
attachment blows an A4 document out to an A2 and the
recipients cannot print it and it takes a lot longer to
download as it also grows in size.
After the document was initially scanned I printed it out
and it comes out fine.
Please help as these are important documents that must be
sent soon
 
With a JPG, more often than not, that actually makes the attachment larger.
Much better off just changing the resolution down to 150, for example and
scanning after that. Will create a smaller JPG.

The reason "it grows in size" when you email it is that you never actually
send a binary. You send a uuencode and that is basically printable
characters. However, to convert to that so it can be sent as an attachment,
that adds about 30% to the original size. When made back into a binary at
the other end, it will come out the same size.

The original poster, when printing, may be printing from within a prog that
changes the pic to the size the printer uses but the person the other end
may not have that facility.
 
Every time I scan a document from my HP 2210 all in one,
save the document as a JPEG and then try to email it the
attachment blows an A4 document out to an A2 and the
recipients cannot print it and it takes a lot longer to
download as it also grows in size.
After the document was initially scanned I printed it out
and it comes out fine.
Please help as these are important documents that must be
sent soon
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Hi, Dale!
Pictures as a result of scannning are notoriously big.
If you want smaller pictures, you have got several solutions:
1) You can try going to the Online JPEG Wizard at
http://www.jpegwizard.com and streamline your JPEG picture(s) from
there. It might result in smaller JPEGs.
2) You could also optimize your JPEGs by using the freeware StripFile
from http://www.nuetools.co.uk Here is a description:
"StripFile aims to reduce the size of your web site files (GIF, JPEG,
PNG and HTML) by cutting out the extra data they often contain. Your
JPEG file might contain a comment, for example. Or a colour profile.
Or the name of the program that produced it. None of this is of any
use at all to someone viewing the image over the web-- it just
increases the file size, and makes it slower to load.

The amount of compression you can achieve varies greatly. GIF files
will yield 8 bytes if you're lucky, unless they have comments; JPEG
gains vary from 18 bytes to 20KB or even more; PNG files typically
yield 70 to 112 bytes; complex HTML pages can shrink by as much as 40%.
And remember, StripFile aims to remove only unnecessary data held in
the file; visually they should all look exactly like the originals.

This is good news, but you need to use StripFile with care. Although
"stripped" files are usually fine to be viewed with a browser, you may
have problems editing them in a graphics or HTML editor. That's why
StripFile makes a backup of every file it creates -- don't delete that
unless you're positive you don't need it."

2) You can load your JPEG picture(s) into any good picture software
like the freeware IrfanView (http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at) or the
shareware Paint Shop Pro (http://www.jasc.com). Then use their
resizing/resampling feature to get a smaller picture. You can also use
the "Decrease Color Count/Depth". Test all available color depths until
you reach a satisfying compromise between size and image quality.

3) Now always compress (zip) those pictures when sending them as
attachment. It might occasionally result in slightly bigger files but
they will not be blown up by the OE inbuilt encoding process. They will
be treated as ordinary ZIP files, i.e. they will not be processed as
pictures and won't be tampered with.
 
Hi Dale,

I use a 1b color depth and 600dpi resolution, and get very readable scans that are relatively small (190KB) 8.5 x 11 document.

Ciao . . .
C.Joseph

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