Re: Does PNG transform to BMP work for you?

2000-10-31 Thread L.D. Best
Nah ... I did better than that ... On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:32:39 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> Arachne refused to do anything except name the file .TIF time and again, >> even though the file name was encoded as being JPG. >> I had to go into the actual message code and change it to read >> ima

Re: Does PNG transform to BMP work for you?

2000-10-31 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:47:48 -0500, L.D. Best wrote: > Sam, > I found that changing the name of the file to JPG as it should be did > NOT allow Arachne to show it to me in mail. The problem was NOT with > the fact that the file was JFIF ... it was with the fact that IE had > declared it as imag

Re: Does PNG transform to BMP work for you?

2000-10-31 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:47:48 -0500, L.D. Best wrote: > Sam, > I found that changing the name of the file to JPG as it should be did > NOT allow Arachne to show it to me in mail. The problem was NOT with > the fact that the file was JFIF ... it was with the fact that IE had > declared it as imag

Re: Does PNG transform to BMP work for you?

2000-10-31 Thread L.D. Best
Sam, I found that changing the name of the file to JPG as it should be did NOT allow Arachne to show it to me in mail. The problem was NOT with the fact that the file was JFIF ... it was with the fact that IE had declared it as image/tiff when encoding. Arachne refused to do anything except nam

Re: Does PNG transform to BMP work for you?

2000-10-30 Thread J. J. Young
Sam observed: >I have found that some www browsers and some graphics viewing programs >do not recognize a JFIF or a JIF or a JIFF. I just rename the image file >and give it a JPG extension, and that is the work-around that solves the >problem for me. I don't know if anyone here knows for sure if

Re: Does PNG transform to BMP work for you?

2000-10-29 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:12:42 -0500, L.D. Best wrote: > Maybe Arachne checks file type in the wrong order?? Today I got an > attached file which was a JPG [JFIF format] and it kept *not* > rendering because MS Outlook had declared it to be image/tiff at time of > encoding. Despite the fact the f

Re: Does PNG transform to BMP work for you?

2000-10-29 Thread L.D. Best
You are right -- PNG support works fine if Arachne is told the file is image/png. Now, this is just another example of headings messing us up, and Arachne not being able to do anything because it's told text/plain. Maybe, just maybe, it might be possible to have a function in Arachne that allows

Re: Does PNG transform to BMP work for you?

2000-10-28 Thread Steve Linux User
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, L.D. Best wrote: > The "Problem Children" are at http://www.mommydoll.com/doula/ > > Anyone else able to see the "pretty pictures?" I don't see them in Linux 1.66 either, but I do see them in Netscape 4.75. The strange thing is that I have a png graphic at http://twovoya

Re: Does PNG transform to BMP work for you?

2000-10-28 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:52:33 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > I've never run across this problem before, but maybe I've never run > across a website that used *.PNG graphics. > Went to a site and none of the graphics would even copy down to Arachne, > let alone tranform into BMP > The "Problem Childre

Re: Does PNG transform to BMP work for you?

2000-10-28 Thread Or Botton
Found the problem: The server send the .PNG files as "text files" or "unknown". So Arachne deals with them as "text". If you try to right click on the PNG image after you try to download the page, you will see its contents. (if you only see the word "PNG", hit R to reload, and then you'll see.) P

Re: Does PNG transform to BMP work for you?

2000-10-28 Thread Clarence Verge
L.D. Best wrote: > > I've never run across this problem before, but maybe I've never run > across a website that used *.PNG graphics. > > Went to a site and none of the graphics would even copy down to Arachne, > let alone tranform into BMP > > The "Problem Children" are at http://www.mommydoll

Does PNG transform to BMP work for you?

2000-10-28 Thread L.D. Best
I've never run across this problem before, but maybe I've never run across a website that used *.PNG graphics. Went to a site and none of the graphics would even copy down to Arachne, let alone tranform into BMP The "Problem Children" are at http://www.mommydoll.com/doula/ Anyone else able to s