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On 14 Dec 2009, at 14:43, Willie Wong wrote: |
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> (b) If the Big Wig is already happily letting the computer sign those |
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> documents for him, is it prohibitive to try the non-technological |
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> measure? E.g., ask the Big Wig to provide another image of his |
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> signature? |
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Oh, for sure. |
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I just didn't expect it to be this complicated. I expected to be able |
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to open the document and pretty much to be able to click on the file |
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to ascertain it's file size. I expected to be able to turn around |
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quickly to the boss and say "you'd have saved all this file space if |
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you used a 20kb version instead". |
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When I posted here I was kinda expecting someone to be able to suggest |
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a 2- to 5-minute fix. I had no idea it would be this complicated, and |
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now I'm mostly only interested because it has become an interesting |
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problem. |
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> (c) If the image file is that big, it is probably because the |
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> original that got included in the doc file has a ridiculously high |
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> resolution (maybe they just scanned the signature in, cleaned it up a |
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> bit? My signature usually fits in a 1/2 inch by 2 inch block, if |
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> scanned at 24-bit color and 600 dpi, this makes almost a 1M raw |
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> image). I hope if the processing/storage/bandwidth tax is high |
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> enough, an "upstream" fix would not be ruled out directly. |
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Yeah, I think I have a copy of my signature here which was scanned at |
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about that kinda resolution, stored as a bitmap & has a large |
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filesize. When I discovered how badly it slowed down Word when |
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actually trying to place it in a document it got replaced with a much |
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smaller gif version. The improvement in performance that this |
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eventuated was, to me, slightly unexpected - surely whatever the |
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original format, both images must be stored in RAM in about the same |
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way. |
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Stroller. |