Minimize Rapidweaver Image Storage
2006-06-12
While making this blog using RapidWeaver 3.2.1, I have found that the site document gets large very quickly as I add images. This is because RapidWeaver stores all the text and all the images in one large site document rather than externally in pieces in a file structure.
So if I drag in a 3MB TIFF image and scale it in RapidWeaver to 30% of its size, the site document stores the whole 3MB, while creating a much smaller JPEG to upload. To reduce storage requirement this without any extra tools I have found that I can use RapidWeaver itself to do the image conversion. It works like this:
1. Create a blog entry and drag in images
2. Use the image inspector to scale each of them
3. Preview the blog entry and tweak until it is OK
4. For each image, drag it out of the blog Preview and onto the desk top
5. Delete each image in the blog, replacing it with the desktop version by dragging
6. Delete the desktop images
So now the blog has just the JPGs. They are just the right size, and take up minimum space.
RapidWeaver should have a right-click menu that gives the option of doing all of this in one.
So if I drag in a 3MB TIFF image and scale it in RapidWeaver to 30% of its size, the site document stores the whole 3MB, while creating a much smaller JPEG to upload. To reduce storage requirement this without any extra tools I have found that I can use RapidWeaver itself to do the image conversion. It works like this:
1. Create a blog entry and drag in images
2. Use the image inspector to scale each of them
3. Preview the blog entry and tweak until it is OK
4. For each image, drag it out of the blog Preview and onto the desk top
5. Delete each image in the blog, replacing it with the desktop version by dragging
6. Delete the desktop images
So now the blog has just the JPGs. They are just the right size, and take up minimum space.
RapidWeaver should have a right-click menu that gives the option of doing all of this in one.
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