Gawler & Districts 4WD Club

� Internet – What Internet?� Club Information and the Newsletter� Submissions and Emails

Presented by ChrisAsk me questions anytime – Don’t wait till the end !

The Internet

� We now have our own web site!� www.gawler4wd.com.au� But its still under development!!

� For now, I will act as webmaster� Working with Editor and the rest of the committee to

provide the services needed� Of course there will be problems? Report them to me

� Email : webmaster@gawler4wd.com.au

� It’s an evolving thing so feedback is vital� Happy to take any comments – good or bad!

Electronic Newsletter

� PDF Format – Need for a reader� Adobe Reader (36MB download!!)� Foxit Reader (5MB) just don’t install the Foxit

Toolbar (don’t accept it unless you want it) nor have it create the EBAY shortcut (which you can just delete)!

� Colour� If you want to save printing – Under Print

options, select greyscale when printing the PDF� Saves Printing and Paper costs

� PDF saves the club moneyPlease consider

Article Submissions

� Microsoft WORD issues� Compatibility - Word 2003 versus 2007 (and now 2010)� Formatting/Layout - Cut and Paste corruptions� Pictures

� Layout within the Text� Physical sizes – usage of compression

� Printer Setup� Page sizes, Page breaks

� Best Practices� Leave formatting till last, unformatted is OK as long as a draft look

and feel can be established so we know where you wanted to put the headings and pictures

� Don’t fuss and waste your time. Just include a note of what you want within your file so we can understand.

� Try using our “known” templates. These will be downloadable. Includes minutes, agendas, trip sheets, reports etc.

Email

� New Email address : xxx@gawler4wd.com.au� This is currently redirected to the old email address until

we are setup correctly. Everything still works as before!� webmaster@gawler4wd.com.au will be directed to me

as well as any SPAM, site admin messages, etc.

� Viruses� Make sure your virus software is working and up to date

� Use AVG Anti-Virus Free or AVAST Free

� Email Size Considerations� Most email systems are limited to 2MB messages! You

are not popular if you “block” the system with huge messages!!! This can be your end as well as theirs!!

Resources

Utilities and Tools� I will add all links to the freeware

products I suggest onto our web site� I can send these links to anyone who

wants them

Printer Quality

� DPI (dots per inch) refers to the physical dot density of an image when it is printed onto paper or displayed on a monitor.

� A printer's software translates the image pixels into ink dots, that's why printer's resolutions are typically expressed in dots per inch. � The number of DPI that a printer is capable

of producing on paper is a measure of its quality.

� In general, the more DPI, the smoother is the tonal gradients in the print, the finer the definition and the more colour selections that can be display.

96dpi 300dpi

Most ink-jet printers work around the 300 dpi.

Laser printers can go much higher, typically around

1200 dpi

Image Pixels to Printer dots!!

Image in PIXELS as stored in memory within the document

Printer or Screen with fixed number of dots per inch

The Application (WORD) defines a Pixels per inch (PPI) which maps the number of pixels to a

single dot within each inch of the display

PPI affects Picture Print Size

� A digitally stored image (bitmap) has no inherent physical dimensions, its print size will depend on the DPI of the printer or screen.

� For example, a bitmap image which measures 1,000 ×1,000 pixels, has a resolution of one megapixel. � If it is set to 250 PPI, that is an instruction to the printer to print it

at a size of 4×4 inches. � Changing the PPI to 100 would tell the printer to print it at a size

of 10×10 inches. � Changing the PPI value does not change the size of the image in

pixels and therefore it consumes the same physical space (in memory or on disk).

Changing the visual size of a picture within WORD does not change its image size within

the document just its PPI value!

Picture Image Sizes

BMP versus the rest (JPG,WMF..)

� BMP (Bitmap) is the base form of image storage where typically one pixel equates to one byte of storage (memory or disk). Therefore 2MegaPixel = 2MB of disk storage (approx).

� JPG / WMF / GIF … all use special formatting techniques that can regenerate the original bitmap image from this special format of the image. � Many loose some of the finer clarity of the original

image as the compression level within each format is increased.

� The greater the compression the smaller the storage but the greater the distortion can be.

Image Format to Pixels

Image in PIXELS as stored in memory

JPG

Application (WORD) will automatically convert the JPG

internal format into a pixel image held in memory

Pictures and using them!� Who says size really does not matter!

� Everyday people are handling more and more pictures in their day to day work. Whether it be from digital camera’s or scanners, the use of these pictures needs careful planning.

� Typically a digital camera or high resolution picture can be 500KB to 8MB in size. Try importing these into WORD or PUBLISHER and you can expect it to crash often.

� How do you I determine its file size?� Right click on the file in question and

choose the PROPERTIES option

Pictures and using them!

� Size really does matter!� Remember that the visual size of the picture

does not alter how physically big the picture really is. Your application (WORD) is constantly having to load and unload the entire picture into memory every time you view any part of it!

� Most printers work at 300 dpi, so why scan at 1200 dpi? Only if you plan to enlarge would this add benefit. Given that in most cases you cut/crop/shrink then you should reduce the resolution of the scanning or of the picture before you include it in your application (WORD).

Pictures and using them!

Free!

Pictures and using them!

624K / 9MB

87K / 2.2MB

Working in WORD

� Insert a picture into WORD � Get Image from camera (most likely in JPG format)� Open in your favourite editor (photoshop or irfanview etc)� Crop the picture selecting only the part you want, don’t bother resizing� Use EDIT, COPY (or CTRL C)� Click within WORD where you want to insert the

picture� Use EDIT, PASTE SPECIAL option

and select use JPG or JPEG or BMP format, Click OK

� Resize the picture within WORD� Right click picture,

and on the “Picture” toolbar,select the COMPRESS icon

� Select “All pictures in document”� Select both “options”� Click OK

Pictures and using them!

� Microsoft Tools� WORD and the other products including outlook are now

starting to include compression by default whenever you save the document/file.

� Microsoft Picture Editor also has some automation for compressing picture as does Outlook when sending pictures via emails. Its a bit of trial and error.

� Microsoft also had a “XP Powertoy Tweak” called ImageResizerPowertoy which providesa right click “resize” option on selectedfiles. This is available only for XP fromthe Microsoft website.