I have a how to I wrote up in Microsoft Word that I would like to post in here. I copied and pasted it into start a new thread and it will not let me post bc it is too many characters (10,000 limit). I don't really want to break it up into two posts, but that is certainly an option. (When you paste it it keeps trying to put blah blah times new roman blah blah serif blah blah stuff in there and this sends it over the limit)
So I made it a .pdf and it won't let me post that bc the limit is 200 kb and it is 600 kb.
So I copied and pasted it out of Adobe into a post and that got all the words in, but none of the pictures. I am worried this will happen if I break the Word doc up into several posts???
I tried to put it into my gallery, but there must be issues there. It keeps erroring when I try to edit gallery.
Any suggestions?

 

Scott, I ran into the same thing when I did my very long (14-page) writeup on the Cross-Connect Kit from DFA (formerly known as the Cackle-Cure Kit). Alan ended up posting mine for me into the 7.3 Mods page, but otherwise, I would have had to break it up into smaller PDF pages.

Here are a few other things I've learned while working with my PDF file on my covers. Instead of posting pics into a Word document and then converting the Word document into a PDF file... take a different route.

1. Don't paste full-size images into your document and then scale them to the desired final size - doing this allows Word to maintain all of the data for the full-size version within the file structure, and your associated PDF file will be larger than necessary.
2. Instead, open the full-sized image, scale it to the size you want, and then...
3. Use a screen capture utility (I use ScreenHunter 4.0 from Wisdom-Soft, which is free) to recapture your pic in the actual size you need.
4. Paste your screen capture into MS Paint and save it as a jpeg file
5. Insert the newly created jpeg of the small image into your Word document and create your PDF file from there.

If the above approach is still too large, try doing that one page at a time and use the multiple PDf pages as individual files.

Taking this approach has allowed me to cut my final PDF files into about half the size they otherwise were with the first approach discussed in step 1.

Hope this helps.

 

Is amiller still alive and kicking??? That is the Allan we are talking about???

 

If you want, email me with the document and I can see what I can do with it so that you can post it.

 

I think I made it work! Now that the gallery is up and running again it was rather simple. I just posted it. Go check it out!!! I am pretty proud of it. It took me three times longer to do the writeup than both time I did the mod combined!!!!!

 

Isn't it always that way?

And, yes, I was talking about amiller. From what I understand, he's still pretty tied up with a major software system upgrade at work.