How to Make attachment pictures fit the screen

[Big_Al]

When I get an email with an attached image (jpg mostly), and with
cameras these days making 12 mega pixel pics, the picture is huge when I
open up the mail. I can't get it to fit to save my life. I got a
picture of a bicycle and I could only see the handlebars.

[David E. Ross]

When this started happening to me (mostly photos taken by my brother,
who lives about 450 miles from me), I sent a reply to his E-mail asking
him to resize the images before sending them.

If that does not initially work for you, here is a suggestion. Take a
screen-shot of what you do see, save it as a JPEG file, and reply to the
E-mail with the screen-shot attached. In your reply, act naive and ask
"This is what you sent me. What is it?"

--
David E. Ross

The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland.
The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia.
See <http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html>.

[PietB]

Many isp's don't even accept mail that large. But the other common
method - resizing before sending - isn't a great idea either, since
most people don't know how to do that properly, and much software
does is the bad way: by resizing instead of resampling, making the
result look horrible.
Next time it happens ask the sender to (re)send large-size pics via
WeTransfer or similar service.

-p

[Tanstaafl]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/fit-images/

Works for me...

[Keith Nuttle]

The easiest way to view picture that are too large to be viewed in the
message box, is to copy them to an image viewing program like Irfanview.
In there you can easily reduce them or what ever.

Right click on the image in the message box, select copy image, paste it
into the open image veiwer.

Since you probably have an image viewer on you computer, you do not have
to install any special programs.

[Big_Al]

And seems to work for me too.
I know how to save it or preview in Windows Photo Viewer, but it seems
like TB should just do it by default.

[Wolf Kirchmeir]

Mebbe so, but here's a puzzle: whether or not the image fits the TB
viewing window seems to depend on the image source. Eg, those sent from
an iPhone fit, with the cursor changed to a + in a circle. Click on it,
and the image enlarges to original size. Click on the -= in a circle,
and it reverts to fit.

"It's all rather confusing, really". (Neddy Seagoon)

--
Wolf K.
kirkwood40.blogspot.ca

[Herb@UK]

On 22.08.2014 22:13, Charles Lindbergh wrote:

> "Auto Resize Image" worked far better for me than did "Fit Images".
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/auto-resize-image/?src=search
>

Interesting, thank you.

For manual image resizing there is Image Zoom at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/image-zoom/
Have been using it for years and find it useful.

--
Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk

[Tanstaafl]

On 8/22/2014 4:49 PM, Keith Nuttle <keith_...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 8/22/2014 4:25 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> On 8/22/2014 3:22 PM, Big_Al <Big...@invalid.com> wrote:
>>> When I get an email with an attached image (jpg mostly), and with
>>> cameras these days making 12 mega pixel pics, the picture is huge when I
>>> open up the mail. I can't get it to fit to save my life. I got a
>>> picture of a bicycle and I could only see the handlebars.

>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/fit-images/
>>
>> Works for me...

> The easiest way to view picture that are too large to be viewed in the
> message box, is to copy them to an image viewing program like Irfanview.

How exactly is that 'easier' than just clicking on the message and
seeing the picture in full view auto resized to fill the window size?

[Tanstaafl]

On 8/22/2014 5:13 PM, Charles Lindbergh <spi...@stlouis.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:25:12 -0400, Tanstaafl <tans...@libertytrek.org> wrote:

> "Auto Resize Image" worked far better for me than did "Fit Images".
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/auto-resize-image/?src=search

I'll give it a look, thanks... seems to be better supported a first
glance (works on 32).

Can you elaborate on 'better'...? How/why is it better?

[Tanstaafl]

On 8/23/2014 4:40 AM, Herb@UK <H...@UK.mozilla.org> wrote:
> For manual image resizing there is Image Zoom at
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/image-zoom/
> Have been using it for years and find it useful.

Yeah, thats been in my collection for many years too...

I've always wondered why the author didn't add a simple 'auto-fit
images' option...

[Tanstaafl]

On 8/23/2014 5:57 AM, Tanstaafl <tans...@libertytrek.org> wrote:
> On 8/22/2014 5:13 PM, Charles Lindbergh <spi...@stlouis.invalid> wrote:

>> "Auto Resize Image" worked far better for me than did "Fit Images".
>>
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/auto-resize-image/?src=search

> I'll give it a look, thanks... seems to be better supported a first
> glance (works on 32).

Well, I don't see how you are comparing these, they do two totally
different things.

'Fit Images' simply sets the ZOOM factor so that the image is re-zoomed
to fully *display* in the window, so no scrolling is required to see it.
It doesn't do anything to the physical image.

Auto-Resize-Image is designed to automatically physically resize images
(ie, 3MB > 250KB) that you are *sending*.

So, an interesting Addon, but not even remotely close to the same thing.

[Tanstaafl]

On 8/23/2014 8:54 AM, Charles Lindbergh <spi...@stlouis.invalid> wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 05:57:57 -0400, Tanstaafl <tans...@libertytrek.org> wrote:
>> Can you elaborate on 'better'...? How/why is it better?

> Anything for you Tanstaafl. It was better because it actually worked, as
> opposed to the previously mentioned add-on, which did not work.

Already pointed out the fact that you are comparing apples and oranges.

The one you referred to does something completely different from the
'Fit Images' Addon.

So, saying it did not work, because it didn't do what you thought it
did, is dumb.

[Tanstaafl]

On 8/23/2014 10:28 AM, Charles Lindbergh <spi...@stlouis.invalid> wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 08:59:10 -0400, Tanstaafl <tans...@libertytrek.org> wrote:
>> So, saying it did not work, because it didn't do what you thought it
>> did, is dumb.

> Tanstaafl, I am somewhat tired of your ongoing personal attacks.

My profuse apologies...

So, just out of curiousity, what would you call it when someone says
that something that works precisely as advertised - like the 'Fit
Images' Addon - 'doesn't work', just because that person was confused
about what it's function was, and was looking for an Addon that did
something else entirely?