Brian, You are, of course, correct, and my post was less than clear - it was written at about 2-30am, and I was more asleep than awake!
I was trying to explain why a poor resolution image will give a good result on the web but poor in print. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307 "Brian L. Lightfoot" <[email protected]> wrote: >Actually, the HTML output selection will store a completely new copy of the >original image in the web output folder. Thus the HTML image link is to this >new image in the web folder where the image is now stored. The Legacy program >link to the original path for the image is not part of the HTML output. > >But all this seem moot since the OP has replied that what he is looking for is >a printed report with clear, readable images that are attached to a source >citation. I don't think Legacy can provide that other than through the means >by which the OP suggested merely pasting the Source Citation into a Word doc >and then inserted the actual full size image into the doc. Works for me. > > >Brian in CA > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 5:32 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Print off Source details & photos > >Brian, > >Both reports and webpages use the image to which Legacy is linked. The program >does not store images only the path to them. > >I would suggest that the reason that images look better on the screen using a >web browser is because, say, 100dpi will give excellent reproduction on the >screen due to the number of pixels which the screen requires, whereas around >250 are required for printing. >Ron Ferguson >http://www.fergys.co.uk/ >GOONS #5307 > > >"Brian L. Lightfoot" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Jenny is correct in mentioning that large scale graphic images of source >>documents don't scale well for Legacy generated reports. But maybe the OP >>would be happy to know that Legacy generated HTML page create a link between >>the web page graphic and the original image. Thus a typical census image >>which looks useless on either a report or web page will actually open up to a >>full size image on the generated HTML. Maybe this technique would accomplish >>what the OP was looking for. >> >>Brian in CA >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] >>Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 1:04 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Print off Source details & photos >> >>On 14/11/2012 20:22, Ron Ferguson wrote: >>> I thought that I had done it again, that is to say got wrong because >>> I hadn't tested! Whilst most reports do not now allow the printing of >>> source images, the Individual Report does, and gives the sizing option. >>> >>> I have now run a couple of pages off, and if you are saying that >>> there is a loss of quality between the original and the printed >>> report I would agree, although I suspect that this is likely to be >>> because I reduced the size of my stored Legacy source images due to >>> memory limitations on my (very) old machine. >> >>I thought I remembered that we had discussed here before that Source Pictures >>don't print well in Reports, so I just tried one this afternoon to confirm my >>suspicions. >> >>The picture I used was a Census that I hadn't re-sized at all. Within Legacy >>I can zoom way way in and it's still perfectly readable. For the Individual >>Report I sized it to 15cm width and it was too blurred to read. >> >>-- >>Jenny M Benson > 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
