DoctorBill wrote:
I just received an E-Mail (typical forwarded message about Kennedy and
Lincoln similarities...)that has large text and Photographs intermingled.
I tried to highlight it all and ctrl-C it and paste it (ctrl-V) into
WORD, but the photos didn't carry over.
Yes, when you copy text and images from mails unfortunately the images
are not converted. I just check with SM 1.1.x and a recent SM 2 nightly
and compared the results to copying just an image. With the Clipboard
Viewer from [1] you can see in both cases a text/html part that contains
an SM-internal reference to the copied image (e.g. starting with
imap://). Of course that reference has no meaning outside SM. Copying to
OpenOffice Writer instead of Word even shows that reference. The
difference between copying text + image and just an image is that when
you copy just an image you'll also get a CF_DIB and a CF_BITMAP part on
the clipboard, both of which show the actual image. Unfortunately Word
and OpenOffice Writer are not intelligent enough to detect that and fail
to insert the image again. You can paste it into an image viewer like
IrfanView, though.
The only related bug that I could find is bug 419369 which is for
Thunderbird. You can either create a new one for SeaMonkey or add a
comment to the existing one and ask whether to move it to the MailNews
Core component since I guess the problem lies in shared code anyway.
I tried as an html - no pictures transferred, just the words with boxes
for the photos which were not there.
How can I save a received E-mail message in toto as a file with photos
embedded where they were in the text?
The only workaround I can think of is copying everything (Ctrl+A) to a
Composer (the HTML editor component of SeaMonkey) window or any other
HTML editor, saving all images to disk (from the mail, not the Composer
window) and setting all image sources to the versions on disk (in
Composer choose Image Properties from an image's context menu).
[1]
<http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/w-p/clipboard/externallinks/article.php/c9155>
HTH
Jens
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Jens Hatlak <http://jens.hatlak.de/>
SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker <http://smtt.blogspot.com/>
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