On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:45:21 -0600, NA <[email protected]> in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:
> > >Daniel wrote: >> SM 2.0.11 on Mandriva Linux 2009.0 on a HP 6730b laptop >> >> My sister has sent me about a dozen emails which basically consist of >> attached scanned photo's or newspaper cuttings. If you have been to a >> photo site where they have thumbnail images that you click on to see >> the full sized image.....well the scanned images sent to me are about >> the thumbnail size....even at 300% it's hard to make any detail. >> >> If I "File->Save As->", I get a file with the email header stuff and >> then the text version of the attached photo. >> >> Short of getting my sister to Archive/Zip the files before she sends >> them, is there some way I can re-claim these emailed photos?? >> >> TIA >> >> Daniel >> _______________________________________________ >> >Daniel, > >Silk purses ande sows' ears...you can't make something out of nothing. >If the resolution is too small to blow up with the Ctrl-+, then it won't >get any better if you save it and view it with another program. >Apparently your sister is sending you thumbnails or low resolution >scans, and the only solution is for her to take higher resolution scans >and send them. Most scanners produce JPEGs, and those can be shurnk >quite a bit without losing clarity, given the right program, but there >is still a limit. If you want to be able to print them at a size larger >than what you see on your screen, higher actual resolution is needed. > >Everett L.(Rett) Williams II Everett gave the long answer -- the short answer is "no". Is there a possibility that they are hyperlinked to a photo sharing site? Otherwise, you and your sister need to introduce each other to "Dropbox" shared folders. :-) jim _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
