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Subject:Re: Are .bmp files really that bad? From:"Brian Gilbert" <BGILBER -at- transunion -dot- com> To:"Carrie Baker" <carriebak -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:30:37 -0500
bmp files are larger than several other formats. This isn't as much of
a problem with Word (Word does something with .bmps to reduce the file
size...insert a 920 KB BMP into a Word file and the Word file only grows
57 KB). However, I don't know if the same is true with Framemaker. If
not, you may want to consider converting the graphics if the file
contains a lot of graphics, if the file will be posted on the Web,
and/or if the file will be attached to an email.
The only issue I can think of is file size. BMP files are considerably
larger than PNG or GIF. May not be worht the effort if you have
enough disk apce.
Bryan
On 8/31/06, Carrie Baker <carriebak -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> But is .bmp that bad?
> Is there any reason that I should convert the .bmp files I have now
to
> .png (will it affect the project, or PDF in anyway?) or should I
> leave them as they are?
> thanks
> --
> Carrie Baker
> carriebak -at- gmail -dot- com
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