Sorry, but this is nonsense. I'm not talking about photos, but about graphs, line art, tables. Using PNG you can create real small (in filesize) images, like 10-30 kilobytes. The size of the image (dimension) often doesn't matter that much. You can create the same image (black on white or line art with three or four colors) and resizing (less pixels) it won't make much of a difference in file size, nothing significant.
I cannot believe that publishers create small pictures because bigger pictures means that their book will be deleted later on. That argument seems far fetched.
I did provide a warning of my nonsense. As you say though 10-30kb per image, in a 350+ page text book is already likely 7mb+ (assuming 1+ images pp). And that is absolute best case if the original images and optimization are working together. I would guess without any optimization for digital publication you could be starting from 100-200mb easily.
I know a guy who wrote for tv magazines. He wrote extensive reviews, did nterviews. He can't make a living anymore. He currently is learning how to use AI to his advantage.
> Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.
People don't take it seriously because European governments have a history of making announcements like this and then rolling it back in favour of a return to Microsoft.
Lets see what happens when they try to move finance of Excel. If they are successful there, then there might be hope, if not, then they will eventually go back or have 45% of the company on some kind of exception.
This is SharePoint on-premise, so Google Workspace isn’t a good comparison?
Also, even if we do look at cloud: Workspace isn’t bad (exception: sheets vs Excel), but SharePoint is the center of Teams, Power Platform, PowerBI… to replace M365 with Workspace means a lot of research, setup and testing of 3rd party alternatives to the above.
If you’ve ever worked in a well configured Microsoft stack, nothing beats the integration.
There’s no reason to believe Workspace would be more secure if it had the same feature set/integration configured.
That is the problem. He should have contacted them like he did the second time. When he went into their shop, it all depended on that particular employee, and you can't blame that person for not recognizing the issue.
I cannot believe that publishers create small pictures because bigger pictures means that their book will be deleted later on. That argument seems far fetched.