Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 08/21/06 18:20

On 2006-08-21, News wrote:
> I have been on some sites where there were images on it but for the life of
> me I could not copy the image. I have tried to figure out how this is
> accomplished but have no idea. At first I thought the entire site was a
> image but that is not correct.
>
> Could anyone tell me were I could go to learn what those web designers are
> doing? Or could you please tell me what they are doing or using.

Look at the HTML code and the stylesheet.

If you cannot figure it out, post a URL here.

One example I saw recently uses a non-portable method:
<http://www.printroom.com/popupImage.asp?img_id=42876839&effectRGB=>
(I haven't figured out exactly how it was done, but it didn't
matter) The extracted image (using ImageMagick's display to grab a
section of the screen) is at:
<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/brewers.jpg>.

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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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