Re: Importing big jpeg files into a document

On Friday 14 December 2007 05:05:01 pm valerie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am importing photos (jpeg files) into my Abiword documents. It work
> fine for files up to around 1Mo, but for big files, like 3Mo jpeg
> pictures taken with my digital camera, it does not work. I do not even
> have the preview in the brower when selecting the file. I have a message
> "error importing file"
>
> I am using Abiword 2.4.6, with Fedora 8.
>
> Anyone knows how to solve this ? I want to make document with some high
> definition photos... (it work OK with openoffice, but when i import 2 or
> 3 photos 3Mo each, i end up with a 50Mo document !)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Christian

If you are making the document for printing POD then downsample your high
definition photos to 300 dpi. If you are considering offset then use no more
than 600 dpi. If the documents are for online then resolution should be no
more than 75 dpi. Any higher resolution is simply wasted.

You can use Gimp or Photoshop to downsample. If you use Gimp and the target is
print then you need to save them as ppm and then run them through
pnmtotiffcmyk to get them back into cmyk form. Gimp only emits documents in
rgb culor model.

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