Mail and jpg attachments - change of size problem
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From: Chris Ridd on 5 Mar 2010 08:58 On 2010-03-05 13:31:13 +0000, Lynn W said: > On 05/03/2010 11:48, in article 7vc9bqFom0U1(a)mid.individual.net, "Chris > Ridd" <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-03-05 11:31:00 +0000, Dave said: >> >>> I have never noticed this until last night. >>> >>> I attached a jpg to an email (simply drag and drop) which was about 400k. >>> >>> However when sent it was reduced to about 60k - not what was needed. >>> >>> I seem now to be totally unable to email a full-size jpg. >>> >>> I have fumbled around and cannot find a pref anywhere which deals with >>> thhis. >>> >>> Any pointers? >> >> There's a little popup menu at the bottom right of the mail draft >> window which lets you choose how to resize the thing. > > I think whats happening is you choose the size but when it's sent it is > actually compressed again further I just tested, and when I chose "Actual Size" the image was sent as-is with no recompression. I checked the MD5 hashes and the file I received was identical to the one I sent. If you change the image size Mail will have to recompress the image. -- Chris
From: Lynn W on 5 Mar 2010 09:43
On 05/03/2010 13:58, in article 7vch09F56fU1(a)mid.individual.net, "Chris Ridd" <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-03-05 13:31:13 +0000, Lynn W said: > >> On 05/03/2010 11:48, in article 7vc9bqFom0U1(a)mid.individual.net, "Chris >> Ridd" <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >> >>> On 2010-03-05 11:31:00 +0000, Dave said: >>> >>>> I have never noticed this until last night. >>>> >>>> I attached a jpg to an email (simply drag and drop) which was about 400k. >>>> >>>> However when sent it was reduced to about 60k - not what was needed. >>>> >>>> I seem now to be totally unable to email a full-size jpg. >>>> >>>> I have fumbled around and cannot find a pref anywhere which deals with >>>> thhis. >>>> >>>> Any pointers? >>> >>> There's a little popup menu at the bottom right of the mail draft >>> window which lets you choose how to resize the thing. >> >> I think whats happening is you choose the size but when it's sent it is >> actually compressed again further > > I just tested, and when I chose "Actual Size" the image was sent as-is > with no recompression. I checked the MD5 hashes and the file I received > was identical to the one I sent. > > If you change the image size Mail will have to recompress the image. Yes 'actual size' appears to be the only one that sends what you expect. I used to use Entourage in iPhoto I chose Large say it was 400KB estimated size, then when sent it was actually only about 150KB so it was being compressed further somewhere. Then I sent one via Mail which should have been 637 KB and when sent it looks like it went at 469 KB. Lynn |