.GIF vs .JPG vs .PNG

DavidF · DavidF

Dan, Publisher 2003 loads slowly...you can read more about that on David
Bartosik's site, but here is a quote from one of his posts about a month
ago:

There is a
very short list of things you can do in 2003 to try and make a difference so
I'll list them and you can take it from there.

Turn off the vml and the png options.

Do not insert original images into the pub page and then resize it. Instead
use images already saved as a smaller size and in a web resolution (96dpi).
In your case this would be easy, just go to your 98 publish folder and grab
those publisher image copies and turn around and insert those into the 2003
pages.
Reason for this is that in earlier versions Pub made a copy of the inserted
image making the copy the size of the frame and a lower resolution. 2003
does not, it maintains the full image for fidelity in IE. Just compare the
contents of the images folder between the two versions to see this.

Don't get to "fancy". Use the default white background rather then images.
Keep the page short and minimize the use of images, if need be just spread
them out across more pages rather then dumping several on one. By no means
use sound files.

--
David Bartosik - MS MVP
for Publisher help:
[url]www.davidbartosik.com[/url]

"dan5606" <dan5606@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I am using Publisher 2003.
>
> I have taken all images from my site and resized them. They are all 96 dpi

and about 4X3 inches and saved as .GIF files that range in size from 13 to
130 KB with occasional larger ones. Once in publisher, I shrunk the size
even more on the majority of them.

>
> The site still takes too long to load, is there anything else I can do.

Has Microsoft given up on dial-up? (there is nothing other than text and
links that would bog it down, it's really a simple site, about 30 pages:
images, text, links)

>
> I notice that the files that Publisher published include sets of

duplicates of all the images that were .JPG files that ranged from 5 to 18
KB. I was under the assumption that .JPG files were larger than .GIF files.
(which is why I saved mine as .GIFs)

>
> I have also noticed published image .PNGs of images that I have long ago

deleted. Also an .AVI file I linked to but then deleted. It was published as
a . WMZ. Why are deleted files still being published?

>
> Can I delete unused files (like those .GIFs, .PNGs, and the .WMZ) from my

server without corrupting the flow of the site? They take up some room and
may be bogging down the site somehow.

>
> thanks for the help and sorry for the long question. wanted to get you all

the info.

> Dan

David Bartosik - MS MVP · David Bartosik - MS MVP

Are you certain that deleted stuff is being published?
I'd suspect that you are not deleting all the files off the server first
before a new publish and thus old stuff still sits out there, regardless of
what you pulled off the pub file.

--
David Bartosik - MS MVP
for Publisher help:
[url]www.davidbartosik.com[/url]
enter to win Pub 2003:
[url]www.davidbartosik.com/giveaway.aspx[/url]

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