E-mailing a scan?

Frank Freniere · Post by **Frank Freniere** » 3 Sep 2004 6:14 am

Whenever I attempt to e-mail a page of tab I've scanned, 9 times out of ten the DSL SBC Yahoo e-mail service says my file is over the 10 MB attachment limit.

What gives?

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 3 Sep 2004 6:59 am

How big is the file? Sounds like you're scanning at too high a resolution and/or to the wrong kind of file. BMP's and TIFF's are much bigger than JPG's. Maybe you can convert the scans before you send them.

Frank Freniere · Post by **Frank Freniere** » 4 Sep 2004 12:28 pm

Thanks, Jim. I already switched to .jpg format - guess I'll have to re-scan everything by trial & error at a lower resolution & hope for the best. What a pain.

Will Holtz · Post by **Will Holtz** » 4 Sep 2004 5:12 pm

There are many imaging editing programs that will allow you to take your high resolution images and convert the to lower resolution jpgs. You shouldn't have to rescan anything to get to a lower resolution.

A free program that will allow you to do this is Irfanview. It even has the ability to do 'batch' resizing and format conversion of a set of images. I use this program often and am quite happy with it.

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 6 Sep 2004 2:48 pm

Actually, for tab you're better off converting it to GIF. It will compress better than JPEG because of all the white space. Irfanview will do that conversion for you.

Jonathan Cullifer · Post by **Jonathan Cullifer** » 8 Sep 2004 7:50 am

I use Adobe Acrobat--it compresses and also puts the scan in a no-brainer format for printing. The other good one is compressed TIFFs like Microsoft Office uses, at least in terms of printability.

Frank Freniere · Post by **Frank Freniere** » 17 Sep 2004 5:59 pm

I'll try it. Thanks, guys.