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| 339511 | 2005-03-29 10:32:00 | With the permission of the author someone kindly emailed be a technical book of 126 pages by scanning - these were emailed to me a few at a time. When I tried to copy and paste these into a Word document, so they were all together in book form, my computer threw a hissy fit and the Word file ended up at about 303MB.... is there any way around this please? Bryden |
Bryden (4161) | ||
| 339512 | 2005-03-29 10:37:00 | Don't you just love Word?! You could always try to PDF the document - in two stages if necessary (you can always join the PDF's later). If you don't have the full version of Acrobat there are freebies PDF creators out there... | nicisace (7454) | ||
| 339513 | 2005-03-29 10:42:00 | Why do you wish to keep a "copy of the technical book" in digital format? Cheers :) | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 339514 | 2005-03-29 11:02:00 | How big are the files, do they have colour content and, if not have they been saved as colour (RBG, etc)? Word does add a lot of code when you add complex (for word) formatting or graphics . This can blow the size out . Try not to do any image/picture editing within word . Resize all images prior to inserting (some say linking works better than embedding when inserting images, but I have my doubts with big doc's), making the size of each image a little less than an A4 page . Reduce the individual file size even more by reducing the quality of the JPEG's to as little as you can while keeping the doc legible . Make two Word doc's, first and second halfs if it still keeps crashing . Once you have your finished product, use a free PDF creator to convert the . doc to PDF before Word has another hissy fit or your JPEG's decide to turn into irretrievable red X's (search PF1 for a recent thread on free PDF creators/converters, PDF is much more stable for large text/image files) . You could try Open Office (on a recent PC World CD) which converts to PDF natively . Use Irfanview or some such to resize your images . If you have PhotoShop, it's print preview is handy to get a handle on the scaling of the images, can be used for resizing as well . If you're wanting to print this book, make sure your printer can print out to the edge, or close to, of the paper . Alternatively, take the file to your local copy shop for printing, PDF is an ideal format for this . |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 339515 | 2005-03-30 08:23:00 | Wow, I knew there would be good advice available here.... The reason I wanted to assemble the individual pages into one document is that the lady who wrote it has given away her own final copy and I was going to send it to her (and another user - with permission) and I wanted to make it simpler for them to view - especially as the kind lady who emailed it to me was not very computer literate and the scans were sort of not consistent. I will look for a pdf creator.... Thanks for the advice..... Bryden |
Bryden (4161) | ||
| 339516 | 2005-03-30 10:05:00 | Lot's of good PDF creation tools here (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) If it's not absolutely urgent, I'm about to start on my first Appendix using Open Office Writer, with lot's of images in it, not as many as you but they'll be bigger files with colour, annotation and embedded details. I can let you know how it goes vs Word if you don't mind hanging on. Give me a reminder this coming weekend by bumping this thread up to the top of the list or PM me. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 339517 | 2005-03-30 10:14:00 | If you have OCR software you could use that. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
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