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Notes Client / Core/Frameworks (Incl. sidebar, rich text editor): Paste images as "Device Independent Bitmap" by default

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:33:33 +0000

Author: Slawek Rogulski
Tags: images notes
Idea:

Edit:

Ben Langhinrichs pointed out that there is some notes.ini magic to solve this.

The magic line:

OptimizeImagePasteSize=1

Explanation on Andre Guirard's blog www-10.lotus.com/ldd/bpmpblog.nsf/dx/purpose (Andre's very first post)

Original idea:

When I paste images into a rich text field, by default, they are pasted as bitmaps. I can choose to paste them as deveice independent bitmaps (via Paste Special)..., which hugely (by an order of magnitude sometimes) redues the size of the pasted image. So why not default to the more space efficient encoding?

re: Paste images as "Device Independent Bitmap" by default

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:53:20 +0000

Author: Ben Langhinrichs
Comment: Three points to make here. The first is that device independent bitmaps are certainly not always smaller. The second is that you should normally "import" images rather than pasting them, thus allowing Notes to use the native format for GIF and JPEG images, for example. The third is that there is a NOTES.INI setting to allow all pasted images to be saved as GIF, which really does make a huge difference in stored space, but is a more portable format (ironically) than device independent bitmaps.

re: Paste images as "Device Independent Bitmap" by default

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:32:25 +0000

Author: Charles Robinson
Comment: "The third is that there is a NOTES.INI setting to allow all pasted images to be saved as GIF."

This is the first time I've ever heard that, and a quick look through notes.net didn't turn up anything. Could you share the magic? :-) I'd love to push that out via policy.

re: Paste images as "Device Independent Bitmap" by default

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:20:04 +0000

Author: Ben Langhinrichs
Comment: The NOTES.INI variable is document at this { Link } and should be set as
OptimizeImagePasteSize=1

I should warn you that I have not used it myself.

re: Paste images as "Device Independent Bitmap" by default

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:39:37 +0000

Author: Slawek Rogulski
Comment: I have had a quick play with it using Notes 7.0.2 on WinXp and did not see much difference in the sizes of pasted images.
I did see clear differences in size when using paste special ... \ device independent bitmap on w2k.