excessive file sive in MSPublisher 2000

[Mike Hyndman]

Sounds like you live up to the reputation of being a "Mike".

Ouch!

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh - you *know* about that rep?

 

[Ed Bennett]

A small child turns to Ed, and exclaims: "Look! Look! A post from Mike

It does when it can be achieved with a 95% smaller file.

Not the way I interpret it. If it's hardcopy that counts, it doesn't matter
whether the file is 5PB (1TB (terabyte) = 1024MB, 1PB (petabyte) = 1024 TB)
and takes 3 hours to load - if the hardcopy comes out the same.

Didn't say there wouldn't be, it's horses for courses but in this case
it was achievable.

Just thought I'd point it out in case you were unaware - some people are
blissfully ignorant of the differences between Publisher and Word - and
complain about all Word's shortcomings when they are perfectly solved in
Publisher (and then the people that say that Microsoft should ditch
Publisher because it's identical to Word - BS)

Faster print times, faster loading, access etc., in short, more
efficient working.

The load times may not be that different unless you're loading the files
from a network - as when the pictures are compressed they have to be
decompressed to display and print.

Print times technically should not change, as pictures (AFAIK) have to be
decompressed before they are sent to the spooler, but of course YMMV.

Pedantic?

But of course! And, of course, semantic