Leo,
I suspect previous emails may have given a misleading impression as to what
can be done by batch converting. I do not know of a way of batch converting
only the file extension, only the whole file name which has to follow a
pattern eg family001.jpg, family002.jpg etc. Irfan View>Help>Find>batc
convert gives details of how to resize and rename at the same time.
In Legacy I am afraid that you will have to individually link to the .jpgs
as the file names have changed. For your information should you ever move
all the files to a different location once you have told Legacy where to
find one it will find the others in the folder.
Following the good advice of retaining the quality images does mean that you
have twice the number of images but one surely has a back up anyhow. I would
suggest that you put it on disc unless you have a very large amount of disc
space.
Hope this helps.
Ron Ferguson
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From: "leo macdonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF file is way too big Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007
10:57:13 -0300
Hi everyone, Thanks for your replies, I have downloaded the IrfanView
program. I hope that I'm not getting to far off the Legacy etiquitte
guidelines as this pertains to the best way to store our picture files that
are attached to our Legacy program and I know that IrfanView is not a
Legacy add-on program.
Could someone please walk me through the process of changing my stored BMP
files using the IrfanView program converting them into a .JPG file while
reducing the size.
What I have tried to do myself is as follows: I opened the IrfanView
program; went to File>Open; In the next screen: look in C
drive>Legacy>Data; in the files type, I selected Common Graphic Files then
scrolled to the file that I wanted to change>open; In the next screen I
went to Image>Resize/Resample; In the next screen I just selected, Set new
size as percentage of original> 80%>Preserve aspec ratio is checked>PDI is
set at 200> resample (Better Quality) is selected> OK: this screen vanishes
and I select File>Save: the next screen comes up and I select the same
person's name, file type is JPG and I click save.
Is this the correct process, should I be changing some of the other setting
to product a better quality picture file.
Can I select more then one file at a time to change using the above
process?
I noticed that the origional BMP file is still there in the Legacy Data
File and it is still attached to the person, this process just produces a
new, smaller JPG file which is also stored in the Legacy Data File. I then
have to go to each person and each event, manually remove the attached
picture, re-attach each of the new JPG pictures and re-enter the caption
information, date and desription information.
If I were to change all my BMP's to JPG files, re-attached all the files,
now I would have twice as many photo's in my Legacy Data File. I have added
a D: Drive to my computer, should I now move all the unattached BMP files
to the D: Drive on my computer as I do not have an external Drive?
Sorry for the long email.
Leo
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