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Living Room / Re: Auto close tags
« Last post by Target on November 17, 2009, 05:31 PM »as does notepad++ (under TextFX -> TextFX Settings -> Autoclose XHTML/XML tags)
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I'm not being deliberately stupid here, honestlyBut again, so what is the problem exactly? Is it that you have to spend x minutes longer than necessary sending the mail in several parts, is it that the emails take y minutes longer to reach their destinations waiting for the security team to release the oversized attachment, is it that you have to pay $/£/€/ z more in internet bandwidth? You say that these are causing you PITA - just how does that P manifest itself?
The reason for asking is that it seems clear that you need other people in your company to take action. And to get those people on board you're going to have to justify what real benefit the company will get by solving the problem.
These bloated pdfs are costing us £ a year! People listen.
These bloated pdfs are stopping me from working on the Widget project! People listen.
These bloated pdfs are bigger than they could otherwise be! No one cares.
I'd say there are two solutions to your problem. Technological and psychological.
The technological solution means persuading the person who can make the decision that rolling out the necessary changes to the mfp settings.
The psychological solution is to make it in people's interests to send you efficiently sized pdfs. How much control do you have over what you do? Can you politely reject any pdf that comes in above a certain size - with a link to a quick guide on how to scan pdfs efficiently? Can you bump anything less than 2Mb to the top of the queue?-katykaty (November 11, 2009, 12:29 PM)
I realize the thread is not about what desktop application one can use, but more about what application one can talk the company into purchasing a license for? In such case the target should more likely be a PROfessional bulk program like PdfCompressor, or such. But then he prices #begins# at $500 (for no more than a 1.000 files per month)! Additional PRO features include "creating a watched folder that PdfCompressor Professional (OCR) can monitor for new files to compress and OCR automatically." They have desktop versions for individual file handling, one at a time, without OCR for merely $200, and with OCR for $300, but they will not handle files over a 100 pages.-Curt (November 10, 2009, 05:14 PM)
) the settings are preconfigured and locked down so even if the users were interested AND knew what they needed to do, they can't, which means we end users get stuck with something that is badly bloated and unwieldy... What problems do these bloated pdfs cause you?If you work with 1000's of them, they hog disc space. More frustratingly, though, if you need to e-mail them to others, you can quickly run into attachment size limits-katykaty (November 10, 2009, 04:35 PM)-Darwin (November 10, 2009, 04:40 PM)
I heard that the entire Australian Internet infrastructure is up for a rehaul though. I'm sure that will be very welcome.-Renegade (November 09, 2009, 10:44 PM)
You may want to consider another option if you are working with huge MS Office documents such as Word or Powerpoint.
I use a program called NXPowerlitewhich will compress Word documents with pictures and tables to a small fraction of the original file size and maintain pretty good resolution. These can be saved as compressed Office files or converted into much smaller PDF's than would have occurred with the original file.
http://www.neuxpower.com/products/-jdd (November 09, 2009, 07:39 PM)
If I recall correctly, "optimize for portability" embeds a lot of printer specific Postscript code into the PDF along with a routine to regularly check for the amount of available virtual memory in your printer.
Unless you're creating a PDF that you only plan on sending to a specific very high-resolution output device (e.g. digital press plate maker, etc.) there's no need to ever use the 'portability' optimization.-40hz (November 09, 2009, 07:00 PM)
PDF Creator does pretty well at recompressing PDFs. It can be done in batches, works as a "print driver" and stand-alone, lots of config options.
http://sourceforge.n...projects/pdfcreator/
- Oshyan-JavaJones (November 01, 2009, 11:19 PM)
you can access the MFPs via a browser just like a router and make changes to reduce the dpi or some other settings.-lanux128 (November 01, 2009, 10:54 PM)
.We could shorten it... Take the "F" from File and the "ucket" from Bucket...hmmm....maybe not.-skwire (October 29, 2009, 09:25 PM)
@target, this is the wrong thread, but I take it you did the same as me and modified the 'client' 'server' program? And had it it working, but no idea why.....-Fred Nerd (October 29, 2009, 09:26 PM)
- many thanks!