Compress attachment with Zip

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Charles Leung

Most of my friends are PC users and Zip is quite a standard for compression.
Is there any way to compress attachment with Zip? Thanks.

Charles
 
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Rob Buckley

Most of my friends are PC users and Zip is quite a standard for compression.
Is there any way to compress attachment with Zip? Thanks.

Charles
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Straight away from Entourage? No. Entourage only has Stuffit compression as
an option.

But you can select the attachment in the Finder and then use Create Archive
in the File menu to create a zip file from the attachment.

If you have Tiger, you could create an Automator plug-in for the Finder
along the following lines:

1) "Create Archive" action: change the save as and where if you want, or
just accept the default of desktop and archive
2) "Open Finder Items" action: Open withŠ Microsoft Entourage

Then Save as plug-in from the File menu in Automator.

You'll then be able to use the Automator contextual menu item to run the
plug-in on any files you want to send as zip attachments.
 
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Charles Leung

I could create zip file with ³Create Archive², but could not follow
Automator plug-in steps. Could you provide more info.? Thanks.

I¹m running Tiger v.10.4.2.
 
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Rob Buckley

I could create zip file with ³Create Archive², but could not follow
Automator plug-in steps. Could you provide more info.? Thanks.

I¹m running Tiger v.10.4.2.
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1) Launch Automator in the Applications folder.
2) In the search box at the top, type "Create Archive". That should reveal,
in the second column, the "Create Archive" action
3) Drag that to the pane on the right
4) Amend the desktop destination and archive name as you feel appropriate
5) Repeat step 2) with "Open Finder Items"
6) Drag the action to the pane on the right below the first action
7) On the pull-down menu for the Application, scroll down to the bottom to
select Other.
8) Locate Microsoft Entourage using the dialog box provided
9) Go to the File menu and select Save as plug-in
10) Pick a name for the plug-in and save it as a plug-in for the Finder (or
script menu if you prefer)

Now, whenever you want to zip a file or group of files and send it/them to
someone, highlight them in the Finder and then right-click (or hold down the
Ctrl key and click), wait for the contextual menu to pop up and go down to
the Automator entry. There should then be a sub-menu with your plug-in as
the first item. Select it.

There'll be a bit of a pause, then the Finder should create a zip archive of
the files and then create a new message with the zip archive attached.
 
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