Maintain gif,jpeg compression when pasted from IE

[Niall Mullen]

In Publisher 2003. My students are pasting pictures from the web. publisher
files over 5Mb have been reduced to 300Kb by using the "compress pictures"
button. As pictures from the web are compressed already. Why are the
pictures not left in their orginal format/compression? Or alternatively can
we force compress pictures to "on" by default.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You cannot have the compress picture on by default. Put the icon on your picture
toolbar, it will be more convenient. The ClipArt site uses the compression so pages
load more quickly.

 

[Ed Bennett]

In Publisher 2003. My students are pasting pictures from the web.
publisher files over 5Mb have been reduced to 300Kb by using the
"compress pictures" button. As pictures from the web are compressed
already. Why are the pictures not left in their orginal
format/compression?

Pictures are always left in their original format/compression unless
recompressing would decrease the filesize, unless you are copying/pasting
into Publisher.
Going via the clipboard screws things up.
Save the picture files to local files, then insert those via Insert >
Picture.

 

[Mary Sauer]

An image I've experimented with shows 44 kb on the Microsoft web site, in the
Organizer it is 32 kb, in a Paint program it is 714,640 bytes, in Irfanview it is
714,640 bytes. If I save it as a picture within Publisher it is 28 kb in the
right-click properties. However if I open the new saved picture from Publisher in a
Paint program or Irfanview it is 714,640 bytes.