Converting tiff to pdf adds 10MB - help!

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and then I can't email it with hotmail. What can I do?

Many tia

Would a Jpg (Jpeg?)be smaller?

All you need to do is go to YouSendIt.com and upload your file (the TIFF will do, perhaps throw it into a ZIP file first) and then the recipient will get an e-mail message explaining how to download it.

You could probably put your own mail address in as the recipient and then forward the message on, so your family or friends will know it is from you.

It's rarely a good idea to send anything more than about 5 MB to someone. There's a growing chance that they might be using some 'mobile' device, and could be charged up to 6 quid per MB (O2 rate for someone outside Europe).

It's generally better to save the file on ISP web space (or other free web space) and let the intended recipient(s) know the file(s) are available for download.

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When I worked for a consultancy they planned to send 100 MB of files to 3 different people in Spain via e-mail. It was (a) going to make their mail server crash, (b) would have taken hours to send via their ISDN connection (before 2000, no broadband), (c) cost a fair amount because of the duration of the dial-up call.

Simple solution was to ZIP the files and upload them, then send the three people the list of files so they could download only the individual files wanted.

It allowed persons A, B and C to download different files, and choose the most convenient time to do so.

It's a legal document to my solicitor. Is this method safe/reliable etc.

I can't get it down any smaller. How would I?

What sort of Adobe software have you got? Can you distill it?

Save it as a postscript (ps) file, then close this, and reopen the ps file, save as pdf.

I've used it myself, it's safe, it's reliable.

If you are worried about confidentiality, then when you put the file in a ZIP, use a random password eg 22f55g77PQE (a combination at random, not one of my passwords!)

At least that way, even if someone guessed the web link to retrieve your ZIP file, they'd have to break the password on the ZIP as well.

So long as it isn't over 50 MB it should upload quickly enough (and download easily at your solicitor's PC).

As I suggested, upload the file and "offer" it to your own e-mail address (or a close friend/relative, if it blocks you using your own e-mail address for both sender and recipient).

That way you can see how easy the process is, and then send an e-mail to your solicitor with the web link (and any ZIP password if you have used one).

Oh, and yes, a JPG should be smaller.

I think MS Paint (which should be in the Accessories section of the Start menu) can open a TIFF and save as JPG

If not, then a freebie might be found online. I think Photofiltre might still be free. (French author, hence spelling of "filtre", but English menus).

Thank you for your reply. I'm still having trouble though:

Okay, so solicitor isn't very IT savy and says she can't access the document. Everyone else on the case can so I don't know what is going on there.

I can't put it into a JPeg because paint only takes the first page of the document it would seem. I have no idea how to load the whole file into it. Any clues?

So you've got something to the solicitor - was that the TIFF, using YouSendIt.com or some other method ?

Short of sending me the file (oh dear, that's where we came in) I'm a bit lost as to what is or isn't going to be possible.

If you did use YouSendIt I'd be happy to try to get it to JPGs for you - or you may do it, if you can display the TIFF (presumably page by page) and use ALT-PrintScreen to 'grab' the displayed image, then (with Paint open) 'paste' into Paint and save as page1.jpg then page2.jpg etc.

I guess faxing the pages to her isn't possible ?

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