Reduce photo file placed in Pages document

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Reduce photo file placed in Pages document

I use photos in documents which usually have file sizes of around 4 to 5MB. I can either individually reduce an image file size before placing in a document (slow and clunky), or 'reduce file size' when the whole document is complete (quick and easy). But I find 'reduce file size' reduces it so much that the resolution goes and the photos look fuzzy.

Is there a way of adjusting 'reduce file size', ie reduce to 75%, 50% or 25% of original?

Or is there another way?

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 15, 2019 4:21 AM

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VikingOSX

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Dec 15, 2019 5:46 AM in response to MisterPainter

There is no user control over the percentage that Pages applies in the reduce file size process. You best bet for image clarity in a Pages document is to reduce that image external to Pages before including it.

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Dec 15, 2019 6:00 AM in response to VikingOSX

Many thanks - that's what I do now (from Photos to Preview/MarkUp/ImageDimensions to Pages) and I find it so cumbersome.

Pages has it's own way of selecting images from Photos - but again that's not a very slick process, and you end up with the full resolution/size as there's no way of reducing them.

Perhaps there's a way of collecting together the images from Photos, then changing the whole batch together to say 1MB or 750kb each?

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Reduce photo file placed in Pages document

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