Size
Size
Why does a document's size exploded if I insert a pic or two? The pic's size is about 30 kb, and the document is in a rush on more than 2 MB. Is there any possibility for getting the size down besides zipping?
If you save your DOC as a "non-supercompact" RTF, or as a MS Word 6.0/95 DOC, pictures are saved as so called metafiles. Metafile is a special device-independent graphic format. Regrettably metafiles are very big (I mean file size) in most cases. That is why your documents are so big.
Solution #1: If your favorite document format is RTF, you could enable the "Save supercompact RTF documents" option ("Tools | Options...", "Load/Save"). When this option is on, Atlantis saves pictures to RTFs as PNGs (and JPEGs if the source picture was JPEG). This allows to dramatically decrease size of RTF documents.
Such supercompact RTF documents are supported by the new versions of MS Word (MS Word 97/2000/XP) and a few other top-end word processors.
Regrettably other word processors and text editors and older versions of top-end word processors could not read PNG and JPEG pictures from such supercompact RTF documents (PNG is a new graphic format; it was included to the RTF Specification a few years ago).
Solution #2: If your favorite document format is DOC, save your documents as MS Word 97/2000 DOC. The MS Word 97/2000 DOCs use/support both PNG and JPEG.
Solution #3: the Atlantis encrypted documents (COD) always use the most compact graphic formats.
Solution #1: If your favorite document format is RTF, you could enable the "Save supercompact RTF documents" option ("Tools | Options...", "Load/Save"). When this option is on, Atlantis saves pictures to RTFs as PNGs (and JPEGs if the source picture was JPEG). This allows to dramatically decrease size of RTF documents.
Such supercompact RTF documents are supported by the new versions of MS Word (MS Word 97/2000/XP) and a few other top-end word processors.
Regrettably other word processors and text editors and older versions of top-end word processors could not read PNG and JPEG pictures from such supercompact RTF documents (PNG is a new graphic format; it was included to the RTF Specification a few years ago).
Solution #2: If your favorite document format is DOC, save your documents as MS Word 97/2000 DOC. The MS Word 97/2000 DOCs use/support both PNG and JPEG.
Solution #3: the Atlantis encrypted documents (COD) always use the most compact graphic formats.
Size
I have just tried Solution #1. There is a difference between 4,52 MB (pictures as a metafile) and 542 kb (supercompact rtf). 
The other two solutions are leading to documents with 279 kb (word 97) and 542 kb (cod).
The other two solutions are leading to documents with 279 kb (word 97) and 542 kb (cod).