deb & judih...
Well I found a freeware compression utility this morning and got it down to 20 mgs. Way smaller than my zip utility could compress it. Still working on getting it smaller. There are also several other formats which I'm unfamiliar with that the app can compress it to but don't want to try them until I research what you'd need to open them.
It's 142 pages... splitting it into 3 different files won't work because it's too much work... lol...there's this text box that runs through the entire document linking all the text together. If I unlink the boxes in order to create 3 documents... well all that text won't appear... also images are in there associated with text .... it would be allotta work recreating it in 3 parts.
I can always put it up on the server for viewing but we're tight with space at the moment. Then there's
http://sendspace.com which takes huge files. I could try that. I'll keep you posted.
Another thought is going through the document and reducing the size of each image separately (that's what the reduce file size option in acrobat does) for sharing purposes only and then send the final file to the people who will be printing the book on a CD with the high resolution images.
If all this sounds like sausage making... it IS!
Thinking aloud with my fingers on the keyboard.
What's the largest size file you can receive by email, judih?
