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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/26/87 11:18
Captain Dondo wrote:
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>
>>
>> Well not necessarily, depends on what program you open the image with.
>> Now I am not advocating what he wants to do, but images on the web and
>> web browsers typically display images independent of their DPI
>> setting. E.g., a 300x300 pixel image on a typical monitor resolution
>> about @96DPI will mean the image will appear about 3" on a side, but
>> an image set for printing, typically 300DPI, using any decent graphic
>> software would recognize the files DPI setting and print a mere
>> postage stamp 1" image. Therefore if he is trying to supply 4"x6"
>> printer resolution images for download and printing, these images
>> without some special browser setting as 'Fit large images to browser
>> windows' being set would appear a huge 1200x1800 pixels on most folks
>> monitors without HTML with WIDTH and HEIGHT parameters forcing
>> constrainment.
>>
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>
> Bingo! That and the fact that the 640x480 images are typically 100K,
> and the full size images are about 1MB that. No point in someone
> downloading 10 or 100 MB of pics when they might only be interested in 1
> picture after seeing the 640x480 snapshots.
>
> Anyway, the way the page is set up now, it pops up the standard
> download/save as/open with dialog box, so the visitor can save it or
> open it in their favorite program. That way, everyone is happy. I
> don't want to force people into a large download if they really don't
> want the pic, and I don't want to use up my bandwidth for nothing.
Or you can use a small WB size image about 300 pixels as a viewable
preview that is linked to a hires image and you can label your preview
image info that the hires is 1Mb and xxxxx X xxxxx pixels and they can
click or right-click as the user so wishes dto download the image....
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Take care,
Jonathan
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