.zip files

[Bones]

I have taken over as organiser of our club's audax rides and would like to offer on-line entries which means having the routesheet available on the AUK website. However it can only be posted as a .zip file. I have an iMac and have no idea how I convert my pages documents to zip files. Do I need special soft wear? Thanks for your help.

[pcolbeck]

Zips are just like a big envelope stuffed with the files you want to give someone plus it compresses the file so they use less space and download quicker (the amount they get compressed depends on the original file, Word Processing documents get compressed a lot and JPEGS very little if at all for example).
You can get specific software to create ZIP files but OSX has basic ZIP functionality built in these days. In finder you simply choose "create archive".

[Wonky]

You will probably need to save the Pages dicument in somethis more PC friendly. i.e. export to micro$oft word format. Thaen compress to zip

[Jaded]

Hi Bones.

In Pages make your document, then go to File : Export...

and choose Word



When you put the file name in make sure you put .doc at the end. OSX is a bugger with file extensions.

Then find the file in Finder

Make sure it has .doc at the end of it. If it hasn't - rename the file so it has.

CRTL click (or right click if you have succumbed to the two-button menace)



Choose Compress

et voila, votre compressed file est ici

[Bones]

Many thanks everyone for explaining and Jaded thanks for the step-by-step instructions. I will try creating a .zip file tonight.

[frankly frankie]

Hmm - not keen on that double-dotted extension though.  It might even fail to upload on AUK's site - you'll just have to try it.

[edit] I think you may find you need to rename the zip file from eg Audacious.doc.zip to eg Audacious.zip before uploading it.

[Feanor]

Pah.

Read my reply here, in:  MyReply.doc.exe

Mini-Rant:
Now what numb-nut decided that windows should *hide* the extension by default?
That has to be the craziest decision ever.
Hide the fact that an apparently plain text file is executable!  Duuh!

--
Ron

[TimO]

Mini-Rant:
Now what numb-nut decided that windows should *hide* the extension by default?
That has to be the craziest decision ever.
Hide the fact that an apparently plain text file is executable!  Duuh!

They've been doing that since Windows 95 I think, certainly for quite a while.  It's one of the first thinks I correct whenever I build myself a new Windows install (along with allowing me to see "special" folders, and see system files etc).

[Biggsy]

There are a couple of third-party zippers that sometimes compress more tightly than Windows' own.  eg. Izarc, 7zip.  Just as easy to use as well (or even easier) when you make it the default zipper.

[Feanor]

I think the OP was working on a Mac, not a Win box.

But I agree, 7zip for me on a win box.
It ( like most of these things ) opens tar and tgz files too, which is always good.
Oh, and self-extracting .exe  with drivers etc inside, where you wish to extract the core drivers and inf files and ditch the BloatedCrapware which would otherwise install along with the driver...

--
R

[Biggsy]

Oh yeah, sorry.  Thread drift.  Doesn't take long to drift away from Apple.