From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NKHPd-0003so-Cf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:20:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0232AE0B55 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:20:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F878E0C9F for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:21:40 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,395,1257120000"; d="scan'208";a="157123310" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 14 Dec 2009 19:21:39 +0000 Received: from funf.stroller.uk.eu.org (funf.stroller.uk.eu.org [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B1312339 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:21:35 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: <2D94F7B3-3561-44F8-AE9F-45C960F9C02E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20091214144344.GA21815@princeton.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file? Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:21:36 +0000 References: <19C9F1BB-65F4-4D4C-8506-160A471F1625@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <4B2501AD.7000008@darkmetatron.de> <155E655C-2B23-4BF3-ACD9-F186A5C3D965@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20091214140150.1d291e31@gmx.net> <20091214144344.GA21815@princeton.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Archives-Salt: f74dae26-c436-47af-bbf3-89a5ca9a2174 X-Archives-Hash: 705b199d82490fd1d938f7f423c26382 On 14 Dec 2009, at 14:43, Willie Wong wrote: > ... > (b) If the Big Wig is already happily letting the computer sign those > documents for him, is it prohibitive to try the non-technological > measure? E.g., ask the Big Wig to provide another image of his > signature? Oh, for sure. I just didn't expect it to be this complicated. I expected to be able to open the document and pretty much to be able to click on the file to ascertain it's file size. I expected to be able to turn around quickly to the boss and say "you'd have saved all this file space if you used a 20kb version instead". When I posted here I was kinda expecting someone to be able to suggest a 2- to 5-minute fix. I had no idea it would be this complicated, and now I'm mostly only interested because it has become an interesting problem. > (c) If the image file is that big, it is probably because the > original that got included in the doc file has a ridiculously high > resolution (maybe they just scanned the signature in, cleaned it up a > bit? My signature usually fits in a 1/2 inch by 2 inch block, if > scanned at 24-bit color and 600 dpi, this makes almost a 1M raw > image). I hope if the processing/storage/bandwidth tax is high > enough, an "upstream" fix would not be ruled out directly. Yeah, I think I have a copy of my signature here which was scanned at about that kinda resolution, stored as a bitmap & has a large filesize. When I discovered how badly it slowed down Word when actually trying to place it in a document it got replaced with a much smaller gif version. The improvement in performance that this eventuated was, to me, slightly unexpected - surely whatever the original format, both images must be stored in RAM in about the same way. Stroller.