[H-GEN] Document Formatting

[Rod Hurford]

On 30 March 2012 11:19, Sandra Mansell <sandra at mansell.id.au> wrote:

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> On 30/03/2012 10:57 AM, Julian DeMarchi wrote:
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>  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.
> --
> sandra at mansell.id.au
> "If you think you are too small to make
> a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
>        -- Dalai Lama XIV
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> I was going to make the same suggestion: 1 file per chapter, merge when
finished.
Rod
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