OT: computer tech question
Greg Henry
page, it will save as a .jpg instead of a .bmp? My computer, operating
on XP, only gives me the option of a .bmp. I can certainly convert it in
Photoshop, but I'd prefer it if I could just save it as a .jpg.
Any suggestions?
Michael Gula
You can't right-click on the image and save as .jpg?
Maybe the online image is not a .jpg.
Greg Henry
I had wondered about that, but not EVERY image on the internet is a
.bmp. The vast majority of them are .jpg's.
Michael Gula
Post the link (unless you're looking at naughty pictures).
Greg Henry
Nope, nothing naughty.
This is a commercial fisherman in Ogunquit, ME. I live in VT and we go
over there for vacation and I've gone out on their fishing charters a
few times. They lobster year round and they keep their website up so
when I'm longing for some vacation time, I check out their website and
snag photos. I KNOW this guy posts them as .jpg, you can look at the
HTML source and see that.
Michael Gula
Hmmm. Looks pretty fishy to me.
I was able to save it as 11-1604b.jpg. with no trouble at all.
Right-click, "Save picture as. . . ".
Greg Henry
A comrade from alt.tv.sopranos suggested that the problem may be that my
cache was at capacity. So I cleared it and HEY PRESTO, it worked. Let
that be a lesson to you all.
Michael Gula
All you need is cache.
Hoodoo
wrote:
>>>>>> You can't right-click on the image and save as .jpg?
>>>>>> Maybe the online image is not a .jpg.
It's not that, I've encountered the same situation since purchasing a
computer with the WinXP operating system. I checked the same images
that XP would only save as .bmp with my old 'puter running Win98 and
was able to save them as their proper .jpg format.
>> Hmmm. Looks pretty fishy to me.
>> I was able to save it as 11-1604b.jpg. with no trouble at all.
>> Right-click, "Save picture as. . . ".
WinXP doesn't always allow ".jpg" format as an option in the "Save
as..." drop-down menu, only .bmp format. Manually adding the ".jpg"
extension doesn't resolve the situation either. In addition, when
saving image files during this situation, the filename as already
provided for actual .jpg files isn't automatically inserted in the
"Save as..." feature so you have to create one manually when saving it
as the .bmp file.
>A comrade from alt.tv.sopranos suggested that the problem may be that my
>cache was at capacity. So I cleared it and HEY PRESTO, it worked. Let
>that be a lesson to you all.
After becoming irritated while encountering the same situation for a
stretch of time months ago, I searched the 'net for a solution and
what you learned is the same thing I discovered. I don't understand
why it happens but it doesn't make sense to me because .bmp versions
of .jpg files are so many times larger in data size and therefore a
waste of memory.
After saving many .jpg files as the .bmp format XP only allowed me to
save them in, and after updating the Irfanview graphic viewing
software I use, I was happy to discover that they added an option in
the right-click menu to easily bulk convert various image files from
one type to another.
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chickyraptor
"Greg Henry" <bigd...@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> A comrade from alt.tv.sopranos suggested that the problem may be that my
> cache was at capacity. So I cleared it and HEY PRESTO, it worked. Let
> that be a lesson to you all.
There's gotta be a perfectly good reason why,
if your cache is full, only saving to a less-efficient
file format is allowed, but what that reason might
be I have no idea.
--Dave
Hoodoo
>> http://www.bunnyclark.com/
>> This is a commercial fisherman in Ogunquit, ME.
> Hmmm. Looks pretty fishy to me.
Like... DUH!!!!
Only upon re-reading your comment did I realize how 'punny' you
were being.
Hoodoo
>> A comrade from alt.tv.sopranos suggested that the problem may be that
>> my cache was at capacity. So I cleared it and HEY PRESTO, it worked.
>> Let that be a lesson to you all.
> All you need is cache.
But The Man in Black died a few months ago; reportedly due to a
major case of Ring of Fire which Anusol couldn't even quench.
Hoodoo
>>A comrade from alt.tv.sopranos suggested that the problem may be that my
>>cache was at capacity. So I cleared it and HEY PRESTO, it worked. Let
>>that be a lesson to you all.
> There's gotta be a perfectly good reason why,
> if your cache is full, only saving to a less-efficient
> file format is allowed, but what that reason might
> be I have no idea.
The answer to that question is very, very simple: It's a
Micro$oft product!
Seriously though, I think the online answer I discovered months
ago mentioned something regarding the cache gets corrupted to
cause this situation, not that it gets "full".
Dave Wilcher
> Michael Gula wrote:
>
>>> A comrade from alt.tv.sopranos suggested that the problem may be
>>> that my cache was at capacity. So I cleared it and HEY PRESTO, it
>>> worked. Let that be a lesson to you all.
>
>> All you need is cache.
>
> But The Man in Black died a few months ago; reportedly due to a
> major case of Ring of Fire which Anusol couldn't even quench.
I thought it was a Rutles reference. ;-)
dave
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Strictly Commercial
chickyraptor wrote:
> There's gotta be a perfectly good reason why,
> if your cache is full, only saving to a less-efficient
> file format is allowed, but what that reason might
> be I have no idea.
Because it's a Microsoft product? Just a guess. "Less efficient" seems
to be a built-in rule with those guys.
R
Strictly Commercial
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Hoodoo wrote:
> The answer to that question is very, very simple: It's a Micro$oft product!
Good one!
R
Michael Gula
Go Mozilla.
Hoodoo
>>> There's gotta be a perfectly good reason why,
>>> if your cache is full, only saving to a less-efficient
>>> file format is allowed, but what that reason might
>>> be I have no idea.
>> Because it's a Microsoft product? Just a guess. "Less efficient" seems
>> to be a built-in rule with those guys.
> Go Mozilla.
I was using the IE derived 'SlimBrowser' almost exclusively when
I encountered the cache/.bmp situation. Within the past few
months I've been using both the FireFox browser and Thunderbird
email/newsreader software as occasional alternatives and they
seem to work okay in general but lack various features and style
that I've become accustomed to. They are both less troublesome
though than the Opera browser (w/ newsreader-capability) that I
had used before switching to SlimBrowser.
Biffy the Elephant Shrew
>Go Mozilla.
History shows again and again
How browsers point out the folly of men
Go go Mozilla.
Your pal,
Biffy the Elephant Shrew
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Michael Gula
> Michael Gula wrote:
>
>
>>Go Mozilla.
>
>
> History shows again and again
> How browsers point out the folly of men
> Go go Mozilla.
>
Burma Shave