File Compression Help

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

I think it depends on who you're sending it to. If someone sent me a 5MB+ pdf full of nothing but text, I'd assume that person was computer illiterate -- akin to those types of people that like to email a .doc or .ppt containing nothing but an image(s) when they could have just attached the image(s) to the mail in the first place (for example).

I'd put it on par with receiving an email full of grammatical and spelling mistakes. Yeah, I can understand it, but it's still annoying.

How else should they send it?

I never send anyone anything in a format other than PDF unless that format is needed for a specific reason. In many cases, that is my work and may represent my company. The potential for abuse exists if you send documents out that are in an editable format.

[BlackEleven]

Originally Posted by Rathji

How else should they send it?

I never send anyone anything in a format other than PDF unless that format is needed for a specific reason. In many cases, that is my work and may represent my company. The potential for abuse exists if you send documents out that are in an editable format.

You're misunderstanding. I'm not advocating using something other than PDF (I use it exclusively when I mail a document personally). I'm saying if it's > 5MB and there's nothing but text in it, there's some sort of problem.

[BlackEleven]

Originally Posted by sclitheroe

Why, it's not like they hand coded the individual bytes in the PDF file.

That's kind of a silly argument. You don't have to make every component of something to be responsible for it. If I make a piece of software that kernel panics the machine should I not be held responsible because I didn't code the bytes of the kernel?

[Barnes]

I am going to have to agree with BlackEleven here. Sometimes I get get attachments or download a document and say to myself all the time "Really, 4mb for one page?" Speaks to the professionalism of the content creator.

[photon]

Depends on the content creator, if it's someone who I think should know better then maybe, if it's someone who I don't think should have to know or care about PDF sizes then I don't really care.

In fact if my lawyer knows about PDF sizes, I'm paying him too much! He gets paid to know laywering, not PDFing!

Now I might have opinions about my lawyer's IT guy though...

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by Barnes

I am going to have to agree with BlackEleven here. Sometimes I get get attachments or download a document and say to myself all the time "Really, 4mb for one page?" Speaks to the professionalism of the content creator.

You guys have too much time on your hands.