Removing and Replacing Water Heater

[davlin]

I had to do this as part of the process to replace my kitchen faucet, so I thought I would "document" the work for other do-it-yourself-ers. A tutorial on faucet replacement will follow!

Dave

[Bill]

Dave -

An excellent tutorial. With your permission, I will copy it into the Tech Library, over your name, so it doesn't get lost.

I am having a little trouble viewing some pages - text and pictures overlap. Did you by any chance create this pdf by crewating a .doc or .docx file, and then "printing" it to a pdf-creator program, or maybe CutePDF?

Bill

[davlin]

Bill,

Permission granted. You might want to re-publish the link to the tech library. I'm forever having problems finding it.

The original was created in PowerPoint. Way too big to post out on the forum, but let me know how I can help make it "tech library friendly."

Dave

[ShrimpBurrito]

Great tutorial, indeed. The PPT file size is likely so large because of the images. If you reduce the size of the images, you can get the PPT file size pretty small.

You can do this within Powerpoint via several means, the most effective of which are lowering the resolution/compression.

In my 2007 version, all I do is click an image, and "Compress Pictures" appears upper left. You can do it to all the images at once -- would take 30 seconds. Leave the "Apply to selected pictures only" box unchecked, click options, and choose resolution. Try it at the 150 dpi, save the file, exit PP, and see how big the file is. If satisfactory, go with that; otherwise, try 96 dpi.

PP 2010 is probably similar.

Dave

[Bill]

Dave / Davlin -

So you are a PowerPoint geek? So am I. Used it a lot in my working days.

My old version of PowerPoint (2003) won't save directly in pdf format. Perhaps the new versions will, but I have to go through an intermediate step, which is usually saving each slide in jpeg format. And PowerPoint does a lousy job of saving as a jpeg. How did you get from ppt to pdf?

And as Dave / Shrimp Burrito advised, reducing the file size of the pictures before pasting them into PowerPoint will help the final file size. Pictures directly out of the camera are HUGE! Reducing to a largest dimension of 1024 or 1280 pixels leaves more than adequate resolution.

Bill

[ShrimpBurrito]

Originally Posted by Bill

My old version of PowerPoint (2003) won't save directly in pdf format. Perhaps the new versions will, but I have to go through an intermediate step, which is usually saving each slide in jpeg format. And PowerPoint does a lousy job of saving as a jpeg. How did you get from ppt to pdf?

The newer versions of PP (starting at least with 2007) have the capability to make a PDF directly from the program. "Save As" --> PDF

No clunky PDF print drivers required.

Dave

[davlin]

Wait. I went back and re-read Bill's first post. "Text and pictures overlap" was by design. It's supposed to be that way. Note that the overlap never interferes with the ability to see the important part of the picture.

Is this the issue?

Dave

[Bill]

Here is a screen capture of what I am seeing on Page 20 (and all pages except Page 5). Is this what you intended? The 50% transparency, with the picture showing under the text, is unusual.

By contrast, Page 5 ("Remove rubber grommet ...") simply has the text superimposed directly on the full-brightness picture, which is good.

Bill

[ShrimpBurrito]

Either way - the way Dave did it or the way Bill is suggesting - looks fine to me! It's the content that's key!

Dave

[davlin]

Bill, you say "unusual" like it's bad.

I found that if I just superimposed the black font on some of the photos, the text wasn't as legible as it needed to be, hence the transparent (50%) background.

What you're supposed to say is, "I think it looks really, really cool!"

Dave