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Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / December 2009Compressing Images
The PC version has an option to compress images in documents. I used this feature all the time but cannot find it in the Mac 2008 version. Is there such a feature and if not, why? > The PC version has an option to compress images in documents. I used this > feature all the time but cannot find it in the Mac 2008 version. <br><br>Is > there such a feature No. > and if not, why? Because it wasn't implemented. Send feedback to MacBU via Help/Send Feedback Yes, and it's built-in. To expand on what J.E. said: there is no "function" provided to the user to compress images in Mac Office 2008, because it's not needed. Mac Office has no other way to store images except "compressed". However, if you are looking for the PC's "Compress these images for emailing" feature, J.E. Is quite correct, we don't have that :-) Cheers On 17/01/08 10:07 AM, in article ee88e46.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > The PC version has an option to compress images in documents. I used this > feature all the time but cannot find it in the Mac 2008 version. > > Is there such a feature and if not, why?  SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/ Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name So are you saying if I have a 1GB photo in a word document and then print the document to PDF. The Mac and PC file sizes will be the same even if I compress the image on the PC and not on the Mac? That's not what I said :-) I have no idea what will happen in PDF. Word doesn't do PDF on the Mac, that's handled by Mac OS X or directly by Adobe Acrobat. You would have to ask Apple or Adobe what would happen in PDF. Generally, the answer will depend on what image format you're using. RAW, TIFF and BMP will compress. GIF, PNG and JPEG are already compressed: they can't be made any smaller. I would gently suggest that if you are handling 1GB photos, Word is not your weapon. If you were working for me and you put 1 GB pictures in my documents, I would come looking for you, and it would NOT be to give you a pay rise :-) Cheers On 17/01/08 11:10 PM, in article ee88e46.1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > So are you saying if I have a 1GB photo in a word document and then print the > document to PDF. The Mac and PC file sizes will be the same even if I > compress the image on the PC and not on the Mac? SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/ Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name John I agree with you 100% (BTW I meant 1MB not 1 GB). I will explain further. I run a website for a corporate company. On a regular basis they send me word documents. I convert them to PDF and upload them to the website. Despite my continual requests, many of the documents contain large graphic files. In word for PC that is not a problem. I click a single button called 'compress images' and their file size is optimised for the web. However on the Mac edition there is no such option in word to compress images. So I go back to my original question.... Why is this feature not in the Mac edition of office? Is there another simple way within word I can compress the images? Re you comment above JPGs can be made smaller in the PC version of word. This can be proven by inserting a document into word and then printing to PDF. Then compress the image and print again and the resulting file is much smaller. See what happens if you use File | Print, and on the Save as PDF button, it has a dropdown that offers Compress PDF. > John I agree with you 100% (BTW I meant 1MB not 1 GB). > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > printing to PDF. Then compress the image and print again and the > resulting file is much smaller. Daiya I do not see a Compress PDF option at all. Word 2008 and Leopard. Compress PDF is an option that is available in Tiger; it's no longer present in Leopard. In Leopard, save your document as a regular PDF file, then use Spotlight to find an application called ColorSync Utility. Drag the PDF file onto the icon in the dock, then select "Reduce File Size" from the Filter dropdown button at the bottom of the screen. Save the file, and the size of the PDF file should have decreased. On 18/01/08 19:43, in article ee88e46.6@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > Daiya I do not see a Compress PDF option at all. > > Word 2008 and Leopard. SignatureMichel Bintener Microsoft MVP Office:Mac (Entourage & Word) *** Please always reply to the newsgroup. *** > Compress PDF is an option that is available in Tiger; it's no longer present > in Leopard. In Leopard, save your document as a regular PDF file, then use > Spotlight to find an application called ColorSync Utility. Drag the PDF file > onto the icon in the dock, then select "Reduce File Size" from the Filter > dropdown button at the bottom of the screen. Save the file, and the size of > the PDF file should have decreased. Fantastic idea! I wonder if the new Automator actions could facilitate this. I do see in Automator (when I sort by Applications) PDF --> Compress Images in PDF Document. Signaturebill William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/> Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/> Any idea why the compress PDF option was removed from Tiger. I would have thought it would been a great feature. Somebody else on another forum has just pointed out another way... When printing choose PDF > Open PDF in Preview. The in Preview, choose File > Save As. Set Format as PDF and Quart Filter as Reduce File Size. Michel, Thank you for this explanation. I am very disappointed that the Save As Compress PDF option is no longer available on my new Intel Based Mac. Your ColorSync Utility procedure did work. However, the ColorSync Utility applied too much compression. My image looks horrible. I originally created a 200KB image (in PhotoShop) with just the right amount of compression. The file is small, but good enough quality for a small 3x5" image. I imported this image into Word. Then, using the Print to PDF file, my Mac OS created a 3 MB file!!! This is the file size it created from a Word document with only one 200K image. Not good. Using the ColorSync utility I was able to produce a 80K file. Better than 3 MB, but all I wanted was the 200K image I so carefully created in the beginning. Sigh!! >Compress PDF is an option that is available in Tiger; it's no longer present >in Leopard. In Leopard, save your document as a regular PDF file, then use [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> >> Word 2008 and Leopard. The ColorSync Utility was a good tip. I'm not sure if anyone pointed this out yet or not, but you can create a filter with less compression by clicking on the triangle pull down on the right hand side, choose duplicate filter, then go into that filter and change the % of sampling and the compression quality. I had a 15MB pdf from Word, converted to 832kb with the original reduce file size, I created a new one with 80% sampling and best quality jpg compression and it reduced to 2MB. My client will be happy that the file is now emailable and them image quality is still acceptable. >Michel, Thank you for this explanation. I am very disappointed that the Save >As Compress PDF option is no longer available on my new Intel Based Mac. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >>> >>> Word 2008 and Leopard. Sorry to take so long to get back to you we've been a tad busy :-) On 19/01/08 12:41 AM, in article ee88e46.3@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > Despite my continual requests, many of the documents contain large graphic > files. In word for PC that is not a problem. I click a single button called > 'compress images' and their file size is optimised for the web. Ah hah! Yes, that button on the PC is "re-sampling" the image, not technically the same operation as "compressing". It reduces the pixel count and (I can't remember: it may drop the colour table down too...) > However on the Mac edition there is no such option in word to compress images. > > So I go back to my original question.... Why is this feature not in the Mac > edition of office? Michel to the rescue: "Because on the Mac it's not needed" :-) There are any number of image-processing applications available for the Mac that do this for you very well. Mac BU I guess chose not to spend precious coding time on replicating this function. > Re you comment above JPGs can be made smaller in the PC version of word. This > can be proven by inserting a document into word and then printing to PDF. > Then compress the image and print again and the resulting file is much > smaller. Yeah, but it's being done by removing pixels from the image: I misunderstood, I was not aware that you could tolerate a quality loss. Of course, for website use, you not only can, you should! Cheers SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/ Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50 +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name Thanks for your reply. Sadly, the people who send me word documents for conversion to PDF do not listen when I request that the images files should be small. Many times they send files that contain 1-2MB images. When converted to PDF the file size can be huge. With word on a PC I simple click a button to compress all images before printing to PDF and the results are quite acceptable. However word on a Mac does not have this option and so it would create huge PDF files. A few users above have offered workarounds but this involved a cumbersome process. Tiger had a print to compressed PDF option which for some reason was removed from Leopard. However, a user form another forum gave me a link to a app on the Apple website that re-instates the compressed PDF option and once again I can quickly print small PDF files once again. Still, not sure why Word for Apple does not have this feature though. I just upgraded to Leopard a short while ago and noticed today that the COMPRESS PDF option is missing from the Print>PDF drop down menu. You mention someone sent you a link on the Apple website to reinstate that option. Could you share that? Many thanks! This is definitely a Leopard problem, not Office 2004 or 2008. Leopard eliminated the Compress PDF workflow. to get it back, go to this url and download the package to reinstall the workflow under Leopard: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/compresspdfworkflow.html Lisa The PDF Compress Workflow automator that the below link takes you to only works on Snow Leopard (MAC OSX 10.6 or higher). Will not work on Leopard (10. 5) >This is definitely a Leopard problem, not Office 2004 or 2008. Leopard >eliminated the Compress PDF workflow. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Lisa |
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