begginer frustration

[Adam]

A friend has just bought a new 5Mpx camera and is struggling with computer. She wants to be able to print a few pages with 6 images on each page. She has MS Publisher 2000 which she has never used so although I've never used it either I'm trying to help.
Q1:
With a file size of 350MB for 24 pictures, everything is taking aeons to happen - do I have to resave the images in lower res. before importing them?
Q2:
I can ONLY get a 2 page spread for 2+3, 4+5 etc. So I can't do a simple thing like drag a picture between page 1 & 2 without inserting dummy start pages. This is ridiculous - there must be a way of pairing - or at least simultaneously displaying pages as odd-even as well as even-odd....????

 

[Cerridwen]

A friend has just bought a new 5Mpx camera and is struggling with
computer. She wants to be able to print a few pages with 6 images on
each page. She has MS Publisher 2000 which she has never used so
although I've never used it either I'm trying to help.
Q1:
With a file size of 350MB for 24 pictures, everything is taking aeons
to happen - do I have to resave the images in lower res. before
importing them?
Q2:
I can ONLY get a 2 page spread for 2+3, 4+5 etc. So I can't do a
simple thing like drag a picture between page 1 & 2 without inserting
dummy start pages. This is ridiculous - there must be a way of
pairing - or at least simultaneously displaying pages as odd-even as
well as even-odd....????

The problem is 2000. You need to upgrade to either 2002, or 2003 (depending
on OS - 2003 requires 2000 (SP3 or later), XP or Windows 2003). 2000
decompresses JPEGs before saving, so you end up with massive file sizes.

 

[Guest]

Many thanks for enlightening me about file size - she can't afford to upgrade so I guess I'll greatly downsize the dimensions of the files and then save them as .TIF or BMP, which will presumably get around the problem.

Any ideas on my two-page display problem...?

 

[Ikkeboeken]

A friend has just bought a new 5Mpx camera and is struggling with computer.
She wants to be able to print a few pages with 6 images on each page. She
has MS Publisher 2000 which she has never used so although I've never used
it either I'm trying to help.
Q1:
With a file size of 350MB for 24 pictures, everything is taking aeons to
happen - do I have to resave the images in lower res. before importing them?
Q2:
I can ONLY get a 2 page spread for 2+3, 4+5 etc. So I can't do a simple
thing like drag a picture between page 1 & 2 without inserting dummy start
pages. This is ridiculous - there must be a way of pairing - or at least
simultaneously displaying pages as odd-even as well as even-odd....????

use an image editor and reduce the image size/resolution. your image files
are obviously too large for this configuration. remember, you can only print
as many dpi as the printer can manage anyway.

Memory cost of images
Large images consume large memory and make our computers struggle. Memory
cost for an image is computed from the image size.

For a 6x4 inch image at 150 dpi, the image size is calculated as:

(6 inches × 150 dpi) × (4 inches × 150 dpi) = 900 × 600 pixels

900 × 600 pixels is 900 × 600 = 540,000 pixels.

The memory cost for a RGB color image is:

900 × 600 × 3 = 1.6 million bytes.

The last "× 3" is for 3 bytes of RGB color information per pixel for 24 bit
color (3 RGB values per pixel, one 8-bit byte each value, which totals 24
bit color).

Different color modes have different size values, as shown below:

Image Type Bytes per pixel
1 bit Line art 1/8 byte per pixel
(1 bit per pixel, 8 bits per byte)
8 bit Grayscale 1 byte per pixel
16 bit Grayscale 2 bytes per pixel
24 bit RGB 3 bytes per pixel
32 bit CMYK 4 bytes per pixel
48 bit RGB 6 bytes per pixel