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Me again asking for help. I have been trying to find a way to post some of my drawings. Unfortunatly all I have come up with is to send them to a friend who scans them and sends them back to me. The problem is that due to our systems filter set up he has to convert them to PDF files for them to come through to me. Of course I cant post from PDF to drawspace. does anyone know of a possible solution. Protacal doesn't allow me to download any software.
No access to a digital camera, eh?
QUOTE (Ernest Friedman-Hill @ Jan 17 2009, 04:38 AM) 
No access to a digital camera, eh?
afraid not at this time. General order number 1. hopeing this will be changed soon.
Dude, I am looking at your profile and reading your message, I understand.
I can't think of a way for you to post images to your gallery given your constraints, but you can post images to the forums, and that'd be just great. We're happy to have you start a discussion thread in the "General Discussion" forum to post your drawings.
Have your friend scan your drawings, then post them on Flickr, Picassa, or any other similar online image-sharing service, and tell you where the images are. Then when you're writing a post here on Drawspace, push the button that looks like this:
and type in the URL of the image on Flickr. The image will then show up here in your thread.
Alternatively, he could post then on Flickr, and you could download them from there -- that only works if you have write access to the local hard disk, and you may not.
In any case, thank you for your service!
I can't think of a way for you to post images to your gallery given your constraints, but you can post images to the forums, and that'd be just great. We're happy to have you start a discussion thread in the "General Discussion" forum to post your drawings.
Have your friend scan your drawings, then post them on Flickr, Picassa, or any other similar online image-sharing service, and tell you where the images are. Then when you're writing a post here on Drawspace, push the button that looks like this:
and type in the URL of the image on Flickr. The image will then show up here in your thread.Alternatively, he could post then on Flickr, and you could download them from there -- that only works if you have write access to the local hard disk, and you may not.
In any case, thank you for your service!
QUOTE (Ernest Friedman-Hill @ Jan 16 2009, 09:14 PM)
Dude, I am looking at your profile and reading your message, I understand.
I can't think of a way for you to post images to your gallery given your constraints, but you can post images to the forums, and that'd be just great. We're happy to have you start a discussion thread in the "General Discussion" forum to post your drawings.
Have your friend scan your drawings, then post them on Flickr, Picassa, or any other similar online image-sharing service, and tell you where the images are. Then when you're writing a post here on Drawspace, push the button that looks like this: and type in the URL of the image on Flickr. The image will then show up here in your thread.
Alternatively, he could post then on Flickr, and you could download them from there -- that only works if you have write access to the local hard disk, and you may not.
In any case, thank you for your service!
I can't think of a way for you to post images to your gallery given your constraints, but you can post images to the forums, and that'd be just great. We're happy to have you start a discussion thread in the "General Discussion" forum to post your drawings.
Have your friend scan your drawings, then post them on Flickr, Picassa, or any other similar online image-sharing service, and tell you where the images are. Then when you're writing a post here on Drawspace, push the button that looks like this:
and type in the URL of the image on Flickr. The image will then show up here in your thread.Alternatively, he could post then on Flickr, and you could download them from there -- that only works if you have write access to the local hard disk, and you may not.
In any case, thank you for your service!
gregg1:
Another possible solution (though this process would definitely be what we in the biz call a "kludge"):
* When your friend sends you back a PDF file, open it up in Acrobat Reader and play with the zoom settings until the entire image fits on your screen.
* When it looks right to you, press the "Print Screen / SysRq" button on your keyboard. Nothing obvious will happen -- don't worry, this is normal.
* Open up Photoshop or Paint or whatever image manipulation program you have on your computer.
* Create a new image (Photoshop will magically guess the proper dimensions) and press Ctrl+V (Paste).
* A screenshot of your desktop with the PDF visible will appear.
* Use the cropping/resizing tools in the program to chop out the rest of your desktop, except for your artwork.
* Once you're happy with it, save this cropped file as a JPEG.
* And finally, you can then upload the image to your Drawspace gallery.
Post again to this thread if you need further assistance (or if you have one of those really old versions of Paint that will only let you save to BMP format).
-Warf
QUOTE (Warf @ Jan 21 2009, 06:28 PM)
gregg1:
Another possible solution (though this process would definitely be what we in the biz call a "kludge"):
* When your friend sends you back a PDF file, open it up in Acrobat Reader and play with the zoom settings until the entire image fits on your screen.
* When it looks right to you, press the "Print Screen / SysRq" button on your keyboard. Nothing obvious will happen -- don't worry, this is normal.
* Open up Photoshop or Paint or whatever image manipulation program you have on your computer.
* Create a new image (Photoshop will magically guess the proper dimensions) and press Ctrl+V (Paste).
* A screenshot of your desktop with the PDF visible will appear.
* Use the cropping/resizing tools in the program to chop out the rest of your desktop, except for your artwork.
* Once you're happy with it, save this cropped file as a JPEG.
* And finally, you can then upload the image to your Drawspace gallery.
Post again to this thread if you need further assistance (or if you have one of those really old versions of Paint that will only let you save to BMP format).
-Warf
i just checked and i do have paint i'll have to give this a try. thank you so much.Another possible solution (though this process would definitely be what we in the biz call a "kludge"):
* When your friend sends you back a PDF file, open it up in Acrobat Reader and play with the zoom settings until the entire image fits on your screen.
* When it looks right to you, press the "Print Screen / SysRq" button on your keyboard. Nothing obvious will happen -- don't worry, this is normal.
* Open up Photoshop or Paint or whatever image manipulation program you have on your computer.
* Create a new image (Photoshop will magically guess the proper dimensions) and press Ctrl+V (Paste).
* A screenshot of your desktop with the PDF visible will appear.
* Use the cropping/resizing tools in the program to chop out the rest of your desktop, except for your artwork.
* Once you're happy with it, save this cropped file as a JPEG.
* And finally, you can then upload the image to your Drawspace gallery.
Post again to this thread if you need further assistance (or if you have one of those really old versions of Paint that will only let you save to BMP format).
-Warf
QUOTE (Warf @ Jan 21 2009, 06:28 PM)
gregg1:
Another possible solution (though this process would definitely be what we in the biz call a "kludge"):
* When your friend sends you back a PDF file, open it up in Acrobat Reader and play with the zoom settings until the entire image fits on your screen.
* When it looks right to you, press the "Print Screen / SysRq" button on your keyboard. Nothing obvious will happen -- don't worry, this is normal.
* Open up Photoshop or Paint or whatever image manipulation program you have on your computer.
* Create a new image (Photoshop will magically guess the proper dimensions) and press Ctrl+V (Paste).
* A screenshot of your desktop with the PDF visible will appear.
* Use the cropping/resizing tools in the program to chop out the rest of your desktop, except for your artwork.
* Once you're happy with it, save this cropped file as a JPEG.
* And finally, you can then upload the image to your Drawspace gallery.
Post again to this thread if you need further assistance (or if you have one of those really old versions of Paint that will only let you save to BMP format).
-Warf
Another possible solution (though this process would definitely be what we in the biz call a "kludge"):
* When your friend sends you back a PDF file, open it up in Acrobat Reader and play with the zoom settings until the entire image fits on your screen.
* When it looks right to you, press the "Print Screen / SysRq" button on your keyboard. Nothing obvious will happen -- don't worry, this is normal.
* Open up Photoshop or Paint or whatever image manipulation program you have on your computer.
* Create a new image (Photoshop will magically guess the proper dimensions) and press Ctrl+V (Paste).
* A screenshot of your desktop with the PDF visible will appear.
* Use the cropping/resizing tools in the program to chop out the rest of your desktop, except for your artwork.
* Once you're happy with it, save this cropped file as a JPEG.
* And finally, you can then upload the image to your Drawspace gallery.
Post again to this thread if you need further assistance (or if you have one of those really old versions of Paint that will only let you save to BMP format).
-Warf
warf, i have seperate keys for prt sc and sys rq which of these do i need to use. i'm not realy that well versed beyond the basics of useing this thing.
mine is a double button, but I will guess that you need print screen since that is essentially what you are doing.
QUOTE (gregg l @ Jan 22 2009, 08:27 PM)
warf, i have seperate keys for prt sc and sys rq which of these do i need to use. i'm not realy that well versed beyond the basics of useing this thing.
Yes, "Print Screen" is the button you need.
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