[pchelpers] Re: Word/image print problem

Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Sunday, October 28, 2007, 3:03:07 PM, you wrote:
>
> JD> These came from old drawings scanned and saved as BMP files. One
> JD> of the big ones was 23Mb.
>
>
> JD> When the file with images is printed I get an "Insufficient
> JD> Memory" error. The error only occurs when images are present.
>
> You might try converting the images to JPG format.
>
> Also, Word (especially the newer versions) has an option to compress
> images to print resolution, which should also make the images smaller,
> but, again, I think they need to be in BMP format.
>
>
>   
Thanks. I have solved it by using Irfanview to convert the images to gif 
format. It took several goes to get it working, plus downloading an 
updated version, but it works now. Many thanks for your efforts.

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