Pardon my directness here.
Why are you using a file that big on the web? Is it so that you can link to it for people to download? Because I cannot see any utility in trying to display an image with those dimensions and that file size, whatsoever.
If people must be able to download a 20 meg file, use a smaller image and link to the 20 meg file.
Also, you don’t need SFW, it’s just convenient, and you’re pushing the limits of the "applet". You can File|Save As… and save it as a jpg. SFW does optimization nicely but on a file that size, optimization doesn’t matter.
Peace,
Tony
I am with Tony
Some thing that big just mail it.
Sorry
Ray 🙁
Some thing that big just mail it
Whilst I agree that posting something this big on the Web for viewing is senseless, emailing it is as bad. The MIME protocol for email attachments is fantastically inefficient as it was designed to solve some specific problems.
As advised, don’t use SFW. Save as a JPEG using Save As and post as a link so that someone can download the file, as a browser will struggle to display the image too.
Important question: why are you doing this?
Maybe Raydar meant to advise to snail-mail it (on a CD). Anyway, that’s what I would do. Rob
Maybe Raydar meant to advise to snail-mail it (on a CD).
You are probably right. Didn’t think of that.
That’s so 20th Century. 🙂
There is a physical limit on file size on using Save For Web.
Larry Berman
Hi All,
I am converting the file to JPG and uploading it to a commercial website where it will be sold online as a 16 X 20 inch poster. As far as I know, the JPG must be the same size as the poster file on the other end where the poster will be displayed for sale. In other words, I cannot send a smaller file that will be enlarged somehow on the other end. Nor can I send the file as a CD. It must be an upload. I don’t think I can send a link. The company, cafeart.com, accepts uploads of JPG files up to 7 MB, so there must be a way to do this. If there is a physical limit to the size of a web file, what is it?
Thanks for your replies.
I would like to look at this more, but cafeart.com doesn’t take me anywhere. Can you please provide the full URL.
Hudson
you are going about it the wrong way. If you want people to be able to access your file, you do not want to post it as a jpg on the site. What you want to do it to make a link to the file, with a thumbnail on the page. People will click on the little image, and then download the big one. To do this, it cannot be in jpg format (as most browsers are set to simply open a jpg). I recommend zipping it, which will not make it much smaller, but will allow people to DL it to their disk. They can then unzip it and print it from there. (You may want to make a self-extracting zip file, so that people without zip understanding can just click to unzip.)
Since your big picture will never be posted directly, you do not need, or want to save it through save for web. Do as others have suggested and do a simple save as with jpg as the format you want. Then zip it, and upload the zip to your provider.
Now, this does not answer the problem of your posting a 20 meg file on a provider that has a limit of 7 megs, but I will leave that to you.
since it’s cafe art’s rules you need to follow (i can’t find that site either, btw), they could probably tell you better what you need to do. have you asked them?
dave
Colin,
cafeart.com doesn’t take me anywhere<<
but
http://www.cafearte.com will….. instructions start at /bemember.htm#3
OK. I took a look at this site and found it very confusing.
As a potential seller, I wouldn’t really know what to do. There are links that don’t work and confusing instructions. All I could glean was the OP was barking up the wrong tree. They certainly don’t want big images. They just want something to display. The "artist" has to produce the print to send to the buyer.
As a potential buyer, I just couldn’t understand the pricing.
Sorry All,
It’s cafepress.com. The original pds file is 20+ MBs, but the jpg file conversion will be much smaller, as I know from experience with smaller, similar files. I’ll try saving it as a jpg under Save As instead of Save For Web, and see what happens.
The file I upload is what cafepress will use to create a print-on-demand poster measuring 16 X 20 inches.
Thanks for your response.
Hudson,
The file I upload is what cafepress will use to create a print-on-demand poster measuring 16 X 20 inches.
Thank you. That makes sense, but it’s a bit of a bohemian way to do it. Do they require JPG’s?
When you use JPG, you are reducing the quality of your image since that file format uses "Lossy" compression. It removes pixels. That may not be a big deal, but that’s why JPG files are smaller in file size. You might consider using another file format, if possible.
Without knowing all the issues (file size req’s, etc.), it’s hard to make a recommendation on what other format to use, but if you use File|Save As Jpg, it should work.
Peace,
Tony
