As blueark has said - the tiffs make for a larger Quark doc but the eps files themselves are bigger.
I'd go for eps files because of the way we work. The images are only stored once, so the larger eps files are not a problem but we could have four or five different versions of the Quark file...
Apologies blueark, I forgot to actually reimport the images rather than just update them. When I did that, the file reduced from 202MB to 71MB with the setting at 16-bit and 51MB with the setting at 8-bit.
Still seems that going back to eps will be the best option if we are going to get the...
I tried what you suggested blueark - reducing the display prefs to 16-bit and even 8-bit but it made no difference whatsoever - I still had a 202MB quark file...
I had the idea to change all the tifs to eps files before I saw your post duncdude, but I'm happy to say that has done the trick...
We're not doing anything different to what we've done with previous versions of quark. Pictures are placed by using the 'get picture' command and although these do link to high res images, this is exactly what we've done in the past.
However, now, rather than the finished document being 3MB...
I've just joined this forum, looking for an answer to this exact problem... did you ever find a solution? If so, could you share it with me?
This is proving to be a real problem at the moment as we are eating through the space on our server with these huge quark files that are hundreds of MBs...
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