mikeymikec
Lifer
One of my customers is writing a book which is extremely heavy on graphics. This makes it impossible to e-mail the documents at their normal quality level (the main doc of the book was 1.2GB in size for example).
We're both using LibreOffice to work on the documents. I had the idea yesterday that instead of me visiting the customer to pick up and drop off files, or him carting his laptop over to me, that I'd just export a low-quality version of the doc. My initial idea had been a document with graphics placeholders only (e.g. back in the days of dial-up and telling a web browser not to bother loading graphics until asked), but what LO could do for me is in File > Export > 'Export as PDF...', the image resolutions can be turned down to 75dpi. It allows me to e-mail documents that were hundreds of megs in size (and I've even tried it on the 1.2GB doc) down to a few megs in size or less.
Do modern versions of MS Office have this feature as well? Not necessarily the same implementation, just something that would make e-mailing a high-graphics document easier (such as a no-graphics or low-res graphics option.
I realise there's also cloud storage to consider (though uploading a >1GB file on ADSL would be painfully slow, let alone every time it auto-updates), I'm mainly interested in the answer to my question out of curiosity and keeping tabs on features in software that I rarely use any more.
We're both using LibreOffice to work on the documents. I had the idea yesterday that instead of me visiting the customer to pick up and drop off files, or him carting his laptop over to me, that I'd just export a low-quality version of the doc. My initial idea had been a document with graphics placeholders only (e.g. back in the days of dial-up and telling a web browser not to bother loading graphics until asked), but what LO could do for me is in File > Export > 'Export as PDF...', the image resolutions can be turned down to 75dpi. It allows me to e-mail documents that were hundreds of megs in size (and I've even tried it on the 1.2GB doc) down to a few megs in size or less.
Do modern versions of MS Office have this feature as well? Not necessarily the same implementation, just something that would make e-mailing a high-graphics document easier (such as a no-graphics or low-res graphics option.
I realise there's also cloud storage to consider (though uploading a >1GB file on ADSL would be painfully slow, let alone every time it auto-updates), I'm mainly interested in the answer to my question out of curiosity and keeping tabs on features in software that I rarely use any more.
