Saving as jpg - can't bring down file size

Hi all!
I'm new here and facing a weird problem when saving a BMP as
a JPEG file in Fireworks CS3.
The scanned image is ~94K. When I try to save that as JPEG, I
go for 'Better Quality' with a quality of 80 in the options dialog.
In the preview window, it's showing a size of 5.25 K. But after
saving, I find a file with the size 17.6 K. And so far, I found no
way to reduce the file size. Using the 'Optimize to size wizard'
and entering a value of 7K for example, gives a file size of 19K as
a result.
This is very weird, since other images are compressed fine to
JPEG with Fireworks. Using Photoimpact or Paint.net to save it as
JPEG works fine in both programs, the size is around 6 K with them.
It looks like FW is storing some other information in that
image, for whatever reason.
Can please someone let me know what to do?
Thanks, René

nightsignals wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm new here and facing a weird problem when saving a
BMP as a JPEG file in
> Fireworks CS3.
>
> The scanned image is ~94K. When I try to save that as
JPEG, I go for 'Better
> Quality' with a quality of 80 in the options dialog. In
the preview window,
> it's showing a size of 5.25 K. But after saving, I find
a file with the size
> 17.6 K. And so far, I found no way to reduce the file
size. Using the 'Optimize
> to size wizard' and entering a value of 7K for example,
gives a file size of
> 19K as a result.
>
> This is very weird, since other images are compressed
fine to JPEG with
> Fireworks. Using Photoimpact or Paint.net to save it as
JPEG works fine in both
> programs, the size is around 6 K with them.
>
> It looks like FW is storing some other information in
that image, for whatever
> reason.
>
> Can please someone let me know what to do?
>
> Thanks, Ren?
>
>
Are you "saving" the file or "exporting" the file? There is
a
difference. Saving the file maintains meta data for the file.
Exporting
strips the meta data, thus saving file space.
One other point I have discovered, if you DO save the file
first within
FW then try exporting it, FW seems to keep the meta data in
the exported
file. So if you are having this problem, close the file then
reopen it
and export it.
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