[H-GEN] Document Formatting

Sandra Mansell sandra at mansell.id.au
Thu Mar 29 21:19:13 EDT 2012


On 30/03/2012 10:57 AM, Julian DeMarchi wrote:

> The said document is a book my Mother is wirtting on family history.
> What software for Windows could I look at for her if anything? She's
> just a general home user, who did not even know the size of the document
> _was_ 500MB, and still struggles to understand why it _is_ bad..

If she doesn't need the entire book in one file, I'd be breaking it up 
by chapter or per 100 pages. Something like that. It's very likely the 
pictures and extra formatting that are making it that large. She can 
always merge the lot at the end once she's done.

Sandra.
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