Does anybody know/can anybody confirm a statement I've heard recently.
My company "adopted" the use of a spreadsheet (very limited code) as a template to present photos with some relevant information regarding the photos (I work for a railroad and these are photos related to derailments and the handling of the railcars)
The problem is, photos being pasted into Excel tend to retain their original size (unless resized manually or via code [it resizes via code]). I've actually been told their original Office2K (excel2K) spreadsheets could 'reduce the size of the files'.
This is, of course, nonsense. Photo images (JPEG) are already near minimum size for the given pixel counts...to reduce a photo size you *must* reduce the number of Pixels and thus lose quality.
The most recent statement (from this other company) is that they upgraded to Office2003 (Excel2003) and that version reduces the file sizes even further.
Obviously - I'm skeptical of the assertions. Has anybody else had any experience with this? Could Office2003 do a better job of auto-resizing photos?
And lastly, does anybody have any suggestions? I'm wondering if there might be some commercial software available that is able to resize photos in a way that best retains quality. At this point I'm thinking of pushing these other groups towards PDF files.
Mike
My company "adopted" the use of a spreadsheet (very limited code) as a template to present photos with some relevant information regarding the photos (I work for a railroad and these are photos related to derailments and the handling of the railcars)
The problem is, photos being pasted into Excel tend to retain their original size (unless resized manually or via code [it resizes via code]). I've actually been told their original Office2K (excel2K) spreadsheets could 'reduce the size of the files'.
This is, of course, nonsense. Photo images (JPEG) are already near minimum size for the given pixel counts...to reduce a photo size you *must* reduce the number of Pixels and thus lose quality.
The most recent statement (from this other company) is that they upgraded to Office2003 (Excel2003) and that version reduces the file sizes even further.
Obviously - I'm skeptical of the assertions. Has anybody else had any experience with this? Could Office2003 do a better job of auto-resizing photos?
And lastly, does anybody have any suggestions? I'm wondering if there might be some commercial software available that is able to resize photos in a way that best retains quality. At this point I'm thinking of pushing these other groups towards PDF files.
Mike