It also integrates with Windows Explorer, so you can compress files by right-clicking them.The program is customizable, too, and lets you create your own compression settings.FILEminimizer is a software application which can reduce the size of PPT, PPTX, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, and other similar file types. It integrates with Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes, so you can attach a compressed file to an e-mail message from within the suite itself. In my tests, I didn’t find a dramatic difference in file size between flattened and nonflattened documents anyway the difference was typically only a few percentage points.įileMinimizer Suite 6.0 has a few nice extras. When you “flatten” the files, you not only decrease file size but also make the embedded objects uneditable. Office files often include embedded objects–portions from other Office applications, such as charts, tables, pictures, Word documents, and so on–that you can edit. Note, however, that when you shrink Office files, the software may ask you whether to “flatten” them. Office file sizes typically shrink by 25 to 30 percent, with no loss of document quality. At the other end of the quality scale, when I used high compression I was able to reduce photos by between 96 and 98 percent, but at that level of compression the image degradation was noticeable, with fuzziness and obvious loss of detail. In my tests, low compression reduced the photos’ file size by about 80 percent.
Keep in mind, though, that you will likely notice the difference when printing the photos if you plan to make a hard copy of a photo, you should use the low compression setting. Only when I zoomed in on fine details–such as the gradations of color in stonework or shadowed hues in the folds of fabric–did I notice any degradation of quality on screen, and even then it was barely there. The software shrank dozens of photos with little to no perceivable quality loss. In my tests using its standard compression, it reduced graphics files by approximately 90 percent on average.
How effective is this tool? Very effective, particularly with graphics files. You can, however, tell the program to overwrite your original file, and you can also have the utility apply a different name rather than appending the ‘(FILEminimizer)’ label. By default it keeps your original file and creates a new one, appending the text ‘(FILEminimizer)’ to the name.
Choose the files that you want to compress and select the compression strength (low, standard, or strong), and FileMinimizer quickly goes about its work, taking only a few seconds to compress each individual file.
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