What format should I use? File size was too large.

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Bob Carlson

I don't send many file attachments, but I happened to scan in a six
page paper application and tried to send it. It failed. After
investigation, it appears the biggest file I can send is 1 megabyte.
My solution, which worked, was to send it in several messages that did
not exceed 1 megabyte.

It worked, but I wonder if there was a more efficent file type I could
have used. It was not a picture, rather a form. There was not that
much info to scan. I niavely scanned it into a format JPG.

I don't really know the person or equipment they use to receive it, so
my question is this.

Is there a more efficent file type to send it in a way that the person
who is going to receive it would "likely" have a way to automaticly
receive it? Not in some compression software, or something really
special that requires purchasing something to receive it, but just an
efficent file format for a non picture to someone likely that I will
never send another attachment to again.

Thanks, Bob
 
TIFF is generally the smallest and zipping files sometimes helps - it's a
very common file format so you are generally safe using it.
 
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