April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
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87 - SHRINK YOUR PRESENTATION FOR EASY SHARING
HaCK 32:
Don’t leave it to Google to optimize the le size of your presentation.
Whether you’re exporting a presentation to send to someone, or sharing a Google Docs
presentation URL online, it makes sense to optimize the size of the le, so that you can reduce the
amount of time it takes to download or view your presentation. The most frequent cause of bloated
presentation le sizes are large images. They may also slow you down when you’re editing your
presentation—the same is true for Google documents, too.
If you are a user of Adobe Photoshop or the free GIMP (http://www.gimp.org) graphics editor, you can use
the Save for Web feature to save les in a nice compact format that also looks good online. Save for Web
perform all of the steps described in this hack. In Photoshop, choose File
→Save for Web. In GIMP, you’ll need
to download and install the Save for Web plugin from http://registry.gimp.org/node/33 before you can use
GIMP’s File
→Save for Web option.
A photograph that you’ve taken or an image you've downloaded from the Web may be
too large to be efciently embedded in a web page. Although you can resize the image within the
presentation, Google still stores the original le in its original size, which means that the person
viewing your presentation is downloading the ...
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.