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Posted by Squiggles on July 21, 2007, at 21:29:51
I found something neat:
http://www.scripophily.net/secomi.html
scroll down for the archaic poster on
7-UP at a time when lithium was added
to the drink.Now, if only I knew how to define and detach
the actual poster from the text -- it would be
perfect as a sig for me.Any help appreciated.
Squiggles
Posted by confuzyq on July 21, 2007, at 23:38:15
In reply to LITHIUM POSTER GIRL, posted by Squiggles on July 21, 2007, at 21:29:51
Hi Squiggles,
This may not be what you mean, but if you just want to save a copy of the poster/certificate-looking thing itself, easiest way to do that is to right click on top of it, then choose "Save image as" or "Save target as" or whatever the lingo is in your particular browser for saving a copy. If you want a larger copy of it, click on the poster to enlarge it first before doing that.
If you meant that you only wanted a certain area of the poster cropped out, that's pretty easy to do also, but I'll skip it unless you say you'd like help with that. If none of the above is what you meant, sorry, don't mean to assume you didn't already know how to do those things! :)
> Now, if only I knew how to define and detach
> the actual poster from the text -- it would be
> perfect as a sig for me.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Squiggles
Posted by confuzyq on July 21, 2007, at 23:48:10
In reply to Re: LITHIUM POSTER GIRL, posted by confuzyq on July 21, 2007, at 23:38:15
...oops, make that second example of what the browser's popup menu might say "Save *picture* as," not "target." (That would be the correct choice if you use Internet Explorer. The other example I gave, "Save image as," would be Firefox.)
And wow btw, I never heard this one about 7-Up!
Posted by Squiggles on July 22, 2007, at 7:15:14
In reply to Re: LITHIUM POSTER GIRL, posted by confuzyq on July 21, 2007, at 23:38:15
> Hi Squiggles,
>
> This may not be what you mean, but if you just want to save a copy of the poster/certificate-looking thing itself, easiest way to do that is to right click on top of it, then choose "Save image as" or "Save target as" or whatever the lingo is in your particular browser for saving a copy. If you want a larger copy of it, click on the poster to enlarge it first before doing that.
>OK - thanks, i wil hunt around for that option;
i have an old netscape version, but it's probably
somewhere in the options. Yes, it is the image i'm interested in, though it would be nice to have the logo underneath as well. I'll try this later today.Thank you.
Squiggles
Posted by Squiggles on July 22, 2007, at 17:44:08
In reply to Re: LITHIUM POSTER GIRL » confuzyq, posted by Squiggles on July 22, 2007, at 7:15:14
ok i've got the picture alone on a file, but because i don't want to expose the previous
contents, i'm not posting it. I'll try to copy
it somehow without the personal address.tx
Posted by confuzyq on July 22, 2007, at 17:59:16
In reply to Re: LITHIUM POSTER GIRL, posted by Squiggles on July 22, 2007, at 17:44:08
I don't understand what you mean about previous contents, if the image is now saved in its own file. But let me know if you want me to try to help further, in which case I'd need more details about what's in the way, and the ideal of what you want to do with/to it, etc.
> ok i've got the picture alone on a file, but because i don't want to expose the previous
> contents, i'm not posting it. I'll try to copy
> it somehow without the personal address.
>
> tx
>
Posted by Squiggles on July 22, 2007, at 18:12:31
In reply to Re: LITHIUM POSTER GIRL, posted by confuzyq on July 22, 2007, at 17:59:16
> I don't understand what you mean about previous contents, if the image is now saved in its own file. But let me know if you want me to try to help further, in which case I'd need more details about what's in the way, and the ideal of what you want to do with/to it, etc.
>
>
The large pic alone now has a suffix
sevenupvig.jpgbut that is preceded by a line which would
reveal personal files; on its own it's not enough
to elicit the pic as a sig line, so i have to
rename it somehow.gotta go now - later - tx
Squiggles
Posted by confuzyq on July 22, 2007, at 20:06:51
In reply to Re: LITHIUM POSTER GIRL, posted by Squiggles on July 22, 2007, at 18:12:31
If you mean the part that says something like c:\documents and settings\your name\etc., that definitely will not show in its title anywhere that you upload the photo to, or anywhere else you might paste it or send a copy of it. That is just the mechanism by which you tell your computer and the place you want to put the pic, where it is. Once put where you want it, only the part preceding the ".jpg" extension will show. That being, in your case, sevenupvig.jpg. (When I downloaded the pic myself, its default title was scripophily_1956_36074827.jpg, so your title is obviously better and more immediately identifiable!)
Renaming a file is very easy, but if the above is what you are worried about you don't need to, and renaming wouldn't accomplish what you want anyway since the "private part" is only about the photo's current "address" on your PC, not part of the actual, visible title of the file.
I noticed one funny thing, which is that if it is saved in its smaller form, the sentence "Click to enlarge" comes along with it. Usually that option doesn't get made into part of the image you are saving. But that is easy enough to crop out, as would be resizing the larger version. But that's probably not related to anything you're wondering about, so never mind, don't want to complicate things.
> The large pic alone now has a suffix
>
>
> sevenupvig.jpg
>
> but that is preceded by a line which would
> reveal personal files; on its own it's not enough
> to elicit the pic as a sig line, so i have to
> rename it somehow.
>
> gotta go now - later - tx
>
> Squiggles
Posted by confuzyq on July 22, 2007, at 20:12:33
In reply to Re: LITHIUM POSTER GIRL, posted by confuzyq on July 22, 2007, at 20:06:51
To be clear, when I said:
"...Once put where you want it, only the part preceding the '.jpg' extension will show..."
I meant *immediately* preceding it, before the next back slash, meaning the sevenupvig.jpg part.
Posted by confuzyq on July 22, 2007, at 20:22:55
In reply to Re: LITHIUM POSTER GIRL, posted by confuzyq on July 22, 2007, at 20:12:33
Also, the title "sevenupvig.jpg" will not exactly "show" anywhere either -- only if someone does as you did, and right clicks on it to save a copy of it themselves; and when hovering over it with their mouse the title might display on an edge of the screen somewhere. So the title will not detract from anything about how the image displays where you're putting it.
Posted by Squiggles on July 22, 2007, at 21:08:13
In reply to Re: LITHIUM POSTER GIRL, posted by confuzyq on July 22, 2007, at 20:22:55
Thanks for all the instructions.
I don't know what i'm doing and therefore
do not wish to risk spilling an entire
hard disk history of my life.I think will do the klutzy thing and use
the original url i found it in - not as
elegant as i would like, but i am presently
rather shaky about confidential matters
being leaked to strangers.Thanks
Squiggles
Posted by confuzyq on July 22, 2007, at 21:42:51
In reply to Re: LITHIUM POSTER GIRL » confuzyq, posted by Squiggles on July 22, 2007, at 21:08:13
Ok, but just so you know, it's not even a possibility that that could happen (that the full path of location details, which may include something like your name, could end up displaying in the title of the image. Not unless you yourself added personal characters to the part that *immediately* precedes the .'jpg.'). As you can imagine, one simply must point their computer and the photo destination to where the file is, otherwise there'd be no way to know what you wanted put where. That's all the string of location data you see is about, as you perform the upload or paste, which no one but you ever sees at all. That is factual, so it would be easy to obtain reassurance of that from all definitive & reliable sources, if your original objective was quite preferable to you. But I do understand the unsettling doubt, so I'll leave it there. Good luck!
Best,
CQ
> Thanks for all the instructions.
> I don't know what i'm doing and therefore
> do not wish to risk spilling an entire
> hard disk history of my life.
>
> I think will do the klutzy thing and use
> the original url i found it in - not as
> elegant as i would like, but i am presently
> rather shaky about confidential matters
> being leaked to strangers.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Squiggles
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