Another 8.0.2 ini file feature: Only 25K!
September 12 2008
I pasted this graphic into an e-mail earlier today.
After sending the mail, by rote, I went into my sent view and prepared to edit the sent document, removing the graphic in order to cut down on the size of my mailbox. What a surprise when I looked in the sent view and found that the size of the outbound message was only 25K! (I did it a second time, just to be sure my eyes weren't deceiving me). In the past, that message would have been several hundred KB or even 1 MB or more.
Upon further investigation, I found that yet another space- and cost-saving feature from the 8.5 codestream made it into 8.0.2 -- "compress images pasted into documents". Both Chris Miller and Ulrich Krause wrote about this as an 8.5 feature...but most may not have realized the feature is available in 8.0.2 as well. It's not visible in the 8.0.2 preferences, but you can enable it through an ini setting:
| OptimizeImagePasteSize=1 |
No, I am not trying to become the authoritative source on Notes INI settings. Just finding out about some cool ones.
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Randy Bye | 9/12/2008 3:29:44 PM
I just discovered this myself and the thing that most annoys me is that it's been around since 6.5.4 and I missed it.
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Only learned about this because of the new desktop policy doc in 8.0.2. I am pushing it out to everyone.
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Randy Bye | 9/12/2008 3:29:45 PM
I just discovered this myself and the thing that most annoys me is that it's been around since 6.5.4 and I missed it.
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Only learned about this because of the new desktop policy doc in 8.0.2. I am pushing it out to everyone.
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Randy Bye | 9/12/2008 3:31:35 PM
Does it always post twice if you don't enter an e-mail address the first time?
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guttedgeek | 9/12/2008 4:24:12 PM
Nice! Anyone know what the image format is (ie, when sending images outside the firewall)? In the R5 days, pasted images were .PCX and many external recipients couldn't open them.
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Ben Langhinrichs http://www.GeniiSoft.com/showcase.nsf/GeniiBlog | 9/12/2008 7:14:45 PM
I think it has been around since 6.0.2, and it saves as GIF format, although not quite as optimized a GIF as might be desired in some cases.
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Volker Weber http://vowe.net | 9/13/2008 6:05:21 AM
Notes used to send graphics as BMP, which is very wasteful. With that setting it uses GIF, which is simply not good enough. 8 bits per pixel only give you 256 distinct colorsMaybe one day Notes could use PNG which uses better compression and more features.
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Erik Brooks | 9/13/2008 7:01:27 AM
I think Volker's right. You might want to check out how it looked on the recipient's side, Ed.
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Colin Williams | 9/13/2008 4:27:34 PM
GIF??? :(
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Christopher Byrne http://www.controlscaddy.com/ | 9/16/2008 11:00:40 AM
Images in emails are unnecessary and bandwidth wasters:-)
Seriously, why do people (in general, not directed to Ed) feel the need to include images in their email signatures? What value does it really add?
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Pat H | 9/17/2008 10:50:55 PM
Nice one, thanks!
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Cesar Miramontes http://ktn.blogsome.com/ | 9/19/2008 2:56:28 PM
I blogged about it in November 2005 in my <a href="{ Link } blog, and if I'm correct it's supported since 6.0.5/6.5.4.
It was documented in the Notes/Domino Fix List as <a href="{ Link } TOHA673FH2</a>, technote <a href="{ Link }
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Cesar Miramontes http://ktn.blogsome.com/ | 9/19/2008 2:58:51 PM
Oops, missed the "No HTML" comment. Now, on the first link it should read "internal", second one is "SPR" and third was just "here". You get the idea.
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Karsten Vendler | 9/23/2008 6:07:36 AM
To #1 This is not a setting on servers as i read it, only clients.
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Rafał | 10/29/2010 9:02:41 AM
7.02 too.
ooooooooooooo, must go edit servers now