To compress pictures when saving

  1. From the Options menu A list of available commands and actions in Publisher. Menu names are displayed in the menu bar at the top of the Publisher window., select Preferences. The Preferences dialog box A window used to supply information to Publisher. appears.

  2. Select the Document tab.

  3. From the File Options group box, check the Compress Pictures check box A small square box on a dialog box that can be selected or cleared. A check box represents an option that you can turn on or off..

You can compress the pictures in your .DTP files when saving to reduce their size by up to fifty percent. If you are short of disk space, or your .DTP files contain large colour bitmaps A picture that is made up of individual dots created with a paint program or with a scanner. Compare with Line-art., we recommend that you choose to compress your files.

  1. Click on OK to close the dialog box.

Note:

If you are using an automatic disk compression utility, selecting the Publisher compression option will not save any disk space. In this case, for speed of operation, we recommend that you do not select file compression in Publisher.