Dagobahn Eagle Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 I'm close to finishing my Star Wars: Dawning rulebook. Problem is, with all the illustrations, mostly eye-candy, that I'm putting into it, it's close to 30MB big (a bit big for a 20-page document). So I'm thinking about converting the WORD document to something smaller. Same goes for the ship library. I would like to put more illustrations and maybe some ship pics in there, but if the file becomes to big when I do I won't be able to. If I can't find a way to compress the document (zipping shrinks it, but not enough), I'll have to remove a ton of pics from the rulebook and lower the detail of the remaining ones from BMP to JPG, which I don't want to do for obvious reasons. Do anyone know of a document format that can store pictures as part of them without taking up too much space? I've heard Acrobat documents do, is this right? In that case, how can I convert a .DOC document to a .PDF document? Come on, reply and help make Dawning happen ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Groovy Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 Did you do it in Illustrator 10? Just export the document as a .pdf file and everyone will be able to read it. Don't mess with word. Anyone with even the oldest and crappiest of computers can download acrobat reader 5 for free and see your file, Adobe is brilliant like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinWalker Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 I have the ability to convert a word document to .pdf... it takes a bit of time, especially with a 30 mb file, but if you want, I could help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagobahn Eagle Posted April 15, 2003 Author Share Posted April 15, 2003 Did you do it in Illustrator 10? Just export the document as a .pdf file and everyone will be able to read it. Well, I saved the pics as 24bit BMP files and pasted them into the word document. Just export the document as a .pdf file and everyone will be able to read it. I'll try. Will that decrease the file size, though? 'Cause that's kind of my main objective here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygomaticus Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 Not entirely sure of your version, but my version of word (Word 2000) has the ability to convert a word file to a .pdf file. I think it has this program called "Adobe PDFMaker for Word" I've never really tried it before, but I just did an experimentation file with some text and a rather large picture and the word file came out to be 464 Kb, and the PDF file was only 64 Kb So we're talkin' more than a 7:1 ratio change...perhaps it won't be the same, but it seems worthit. Might change 30 mb to 5-10... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Groovy Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 I have had good and bad luck with file conversions. But mostly with images. Once it's a .pdf file you can always touch it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy_dog no.3 Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 U could release it in parts. Like 5 separate Word documents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagobahn Eagle Posted April 15, 2003 Author Share Posted April 15, 2003 Kode, thanks, I'll give that a try. Thanks a lot to you too, Crazy_Dog, the problem is that the storage space of my site is only 3MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherack Nhar Posted April 16, 2003 Share Posted April 16, 2003 I suggest that you go look for another host... Even if the PDF format reduces your file's size by a large margin, it's very unlikely that you can ever make it fit under 3 megs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygomaticus Posted April 16, 2003 Share Posted April 16, 2003 Originally posted by Dagobahn Eagle Kode, thanks, I'll give that a try. Thanks a lot to you too, Crazy_Dog, the problem is that the storage space of my site is only 3MB. I could help with that If you know FTP, I could set you up, otherwise, just mail it to me at krkode@altusuniverse.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagobahn Eagle Posted April 18, 2003 Author Share Posted April 18, 2003 I've sent you an e-mail, KrKode. Thanks a lot! Now, I'll see how much space I'll be able to save by compressing from BMP to JPEG. It should save me a good deal of space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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