Probably just looking thru the picture gallery? -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> On Behalf Of TRMgenealogy Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 11:35 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Document or Image?
Thanks for all that. I have been doing it all wrong and 'obediently' saving documents as 'documents'. I now think all my 'documents' should have been 'Pictures'. Is there a way of getting a list of where I have done that? Terry On 11/07/2018 12:40 PM, Jane Linkswiler wrote: > I totally agree and have been doing that for quite a while now. Where > I haven't had the option to save as a .jpg, I copy things into a text > box in that good old Windows program: Paint and can then save as a > .jpg or may send up to that good (not so) old: Zamzar.com. FanTAStic site. > > -----Original Message----- > From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> On > Behalf Of Jenny M Benson > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 7:25 AM > To: Legacy User Group <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> > Subject: [LegacyUG] Document or Image? > > I watched a Watch Geoff Live webinar recording last night, in which > Geoff was creating a Source Citation for a Probate File he had found on-line. > When it came to "Add Media" to the Citation, Geoff selected "Picture" > and one of the webinar watchers asked why he had not selected > "Document." I thought it worth expanding on the answer which Geoff > gave as it is probably something which arises quite often. > > I guess the enquirer was confused because the media was, in fact, "a > document"! But in the case of Legacy Citations, the word "document" > has a rather specific meaning relating to the file format, not to the > nature of the Source item itself. > > We usually refer to any paper file as "a document" but once it has > been filmed or scanned or photographed, the resulting medium can be > saved in one of two ways: either as "an image", most commonly named > filename.jpg or filename.tif, or as "a document", most commonly named > filename.pdf or filename.doc or with another extension relating to word processing software. > > To me, the biggest advantage of attaching an image (usually ,jpg) > rather than a document (usually .pdf) to a Source Citation is that an > image file can be viewed within Legacy, whereas in order to view a > document file, it has to be opened in an external program, such as a > word processor or PDF viewer. > -- > Jenny M Benson > http://jennygenes.blogspot.co.uk/ > -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
