Some time ago, when young and foolish (now older and foolish) I scanned various certificates (birth, marriage etc) on my lexmark scanner/printer and saved them on my mac G4 Cube.
The default format was PICT (whatever that is) and I therefore have the scanned docs in that format. I have since discovered that this format is a space-eater (26 megs for one page).
The result is that I can't print them (not enough memory says the message when I say 'print".
Could send them to office to print, but no - can't send either, they just sits in the outbox because they are too bloody big!
Can't seem to change the format either. Since then i always choose JPeg (whatever that is) when saving a scanned doc or photo 'cos it uses 1MB instead of 25.
Anyone know:
a) What are these formats, Pict and JPeg and suchlike?
b) Any way to convert PICT to JPeg or
c) reduce the size of a PICT file so it can be either printed or sent?
My system uses OS9.1
Thanks
