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So some British magazine wants to publish an article about my friend the butter sculptor, picked out some images from his web site and asked for high res versions for print.
I'm using the Cummington Community House wireless because my land line would be hopeless. Even so my emails are limited to 10 mgs.
I stuffed two pictures per email and still went over the limit a couple times and had to redo the packets.
Of course I am trying to send the best (therefore largest) images possible for their print.
Two questions: why does the email tell me my file is, say, two mgs larger than the stuffed file on my desktop?
Can I change settings in Stuffit to compress the files even further without harming the resolution? I was just using dropstuff for stuffing so the compression was automatic.
Or, third question, is the best option to talk to the provider about increasing the allowable email size?
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Do you have a .mac account, or other webspace available? If so, I would put the file there and just send the magazine a link to the files. If you want, I can host the images. Drop me an e-mail or PM and we'll get them on the site.
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yousendit.com...send up to 100 mb without signing up, which is free anyway and lets you upload 10 GB. got me out of many jams...
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Stuffing an image file does not affect the quality of the file. At the same time most image files will not shrink much from the Stuffing process. TIFF files might shrink somewhat depending on encoding and content. Your version of Stuffit might have preferences for Maximum Compression/Slower Speed but even then you will likely not see much reduction in file size.
Email limitations are frequently on both the sending and receiving server. You might be able to get your provider to increase the allowable send size only to find the receiver is set to something like 5 megs.
I work at an ad agency and am constantly trying to inform the users about the best way to get files to people. You might check if there is an FTP solution to this problem.
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[quote blooz]why does the email tell me my file is, say, two mgs larger than the stuffed file on my desktop?
Because e-mail messages must be pure text according to the established e-mail protocol, your binary file first needs to be converted to a more inefficient format where it is represented as text. This is what the computer does when we "attach" a file to an e-mail message. The resulting data representing your file is larger than the original file by something like 20%. If your original file is 10 MB, then you should expect your e-mail message body to be in the neighborhood of 12MB.
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use a rar program and split the file into smaller parts that combine to be one in the end.
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[quote enrico7300]yousendit.com...send up to 100 mb without signing up, which is free anyway and lets you upload 10 GB. got me out of many jams...
Enrico
I have found this solution to be the best also.
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What kinds of image files are you sending?
If they are TIF images, are you saving them with LZW compression? That is a lossless compression setting that you should be able to select when saving the files from Photoshop. It is pretty good at shrinking files with no loss of quality.
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Thanks for the responses. And the info.
Already sent off the files tofer, thanks.
I'm going to check out yousendit.com.
MacMagus, I worked for years in a place where they maintained that LZW messed with the imagesetter. Got so used to not using it I didn't even think of that option today. Doh!
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and 3rd or 4th vote for yousendit.com
couldnt be easier to use
