Sherry has made several good comments including the size of the files. I have found that for any Family Research programs, emails, Word and PowerPoint files, any image over about 100 KB is a waste of bandwidth, speed in loading and printing. You will find that your files with embedded images will be MUCH smaller and the loading of the images will be much faster. Most printers are printing out a about 100 dots per inch, so anything over that is as waste, unless you want a 8x10 or larger printout, but then you would still have the original to print out a images outside of any using program.
Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == -----Original Message----- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] picture extensions If you used LZW Compression for the TIFF file, that's why Legacy can't find it. BTW, I was really surprised when I found out that an LZW compressed file is *larger* than a standard TIFF file! I hope you didn't just change the file extension but actually opened the file in a photo editor and resaved it with the new file extension. Just changing the file extension doesn't change the file format. Personally, I link smaller jpg files to Legacy except for the one preferred picture - I'd suggest keeping that as TIFF if you plan on making wall charts. If you have a lot of large file size pictures linked to a Picture Gallery, the Picture Gallery can be really slow to load. I have my archived photos in the original file format plus folders of edited or resized copies of those original files. The archived files are not used for anything except editing and then I *always* make a copy of the file and never save over the original one. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:29 AM, JT <[email protected]> wrote: > I've converted all of my document pictures, and pictures that link from > legacy from JPEG to tiffs. Of course Legacy cannot find any of the pictures > or documents that I had link to because of the change in the file extension. > Does anyone know of any way for legacy to automatically go through all of my > document pictures, and pictures and change the extension only so that legacy > can find the file names? > > > > In case you're wondering why did this is that I have already had several > pictures drop out their colors in the JPEG format due to the characteristics > of JPEG. I didn't want to use PNG because there was no place within a PNG > file to keep the comments that I had in the JPEG file, the same goes for gif > file. I have plenty of room on my hard drive so I'm not concerned with the > increase in size than a TIF creates. The only downside to the TIF file > besides its size is that the web doesn't recognize it, but I don't plan on > creating a webpage, at least not in the near future. > > > > There may be a better way of using the JPEG format without it dropping out > pixels every time you mess with it, but I'd don't know how to do it if there > is. I'd rather use the JPEG if anybody's got any good suggestions as how I > can do this and avoid the flaws in its retention of pixels. > > > > Thanks in advance to anyone that has any suggestions, as how to > automatically change the JPEG extensions to tiffs extensions in legacy > without losing the file name other than the extension, or any tricks I could > do with the JPEG and have the file remain as stable as a tiff or a PNG > formatted file. > > > > JT > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
