Strange result from "Save Picture As".
 

Hi,

When I display a picture (full screen) on my monitor, right click it,
select "Save Picture As", save it to "My Pictures" folder and then open it
from that folder, I get a big surprise. The original picture was of a deer.
What I see is that of a human!! I've repeated this procedure several times,
with the same result. .

The "deer" picture was part of a "stationery". The "human" picture did
appear elsewhere in the stationery, not when the deer picture was opened. It
filled the screen. The deer picture was saved as .bmp. There was no other
choice.

I would greatly appreciate an explanation, and if possible a way around the
problem.
Thanks.
Andy I. (WIN 98SE; IE/OE 6)

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Hi,

When I display a picture (full screen) on my monitor, right click it,
select "Save Picture As", save it to "My Pictures" folder and then
open it from that folder, I get a big surprise. The original picture
was of a deer. What I see is that of a human!! I've repeated this
procedure several times, with the same result. .

The "deer" picture was part of a "stationery". The "human" picture
did appear elsewhere in the stationery, not when the deer picture was
opened. It filled the screen. The deer picture was saved as .bmp.
There was no other choice.

I would greatly appreciate an explanation, and if possible a way
around the problem.
Thanks.
Andy I. (WIN 98SE; IE/OE 6)

Try cleaning out your temp files. Open IE, click tools, options, delete temp
files and tick the box to kill offline content as well. That's usually what
it means when you can only save as .BMP but I'm not so sure why it'd be a
human instead. I'd try that first.

Galen
--

"You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his
trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will
come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all."

Sherlock Holmes

Galen wrote:
I'm not so sure why it'd be a human instead.

Theme from the Twilight Zone playing

....glen

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In ,
brackenburn [email protected] this bit- ca had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Hi,

When I display a picture (full screen) on my monitor, right click it,
select "Save Picture As", save it to "My Pictures" folder and then
open it from that folder, I get a big surprise. The original picture
was of a deer. What I see is that of a human!! I've repeated this
procedure several times, with the same result. .

The "deer" picture was part of a "stationery". The "human" picture
did appear elsewhere in the stationery, not when the deer picture was
opened. It filled the screen. The deer picture was saved as .bmp.
There was no other choice.

I would greatly appreciate an explanation, and if possible a way
around the problem.
Thanks.
Andy I. (WIN 98SE; IE/OE 6)

Try cleaning out your temp files. Open IE, click tools, options, delete temp
files and tick the box to kill offline content as well. That's usually what
it means when you can only save as .BMP but I'm not so sure why it'd be a
human instead. I'd try that first.

Galen
--

"You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his
trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will
come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all."

Sherlock Holmes

Thanks Galen. Followed your suggestion. No change.

Andy I.


| Try cleaning out your temp files. Open IE, click tools, options, delete
temp
| files and tick the box to kill offline content as well. That's usually
what
| it means when you can only save as .BMP but I'm not so sure why it'd be a
| human instead. I'd try that first.
|
| Galen

Where is the original picture located? On your local system? Is this a website?
If the latter, can you give us a link so that we can see what's there?
Stationery can be weird stuff.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User


"brackenburn" [email protected] this bit- ca wrote in message
...
Thanks Galen. Followed your suggestion. No change.

Andy I.


| Try cleaning out your temp files. Open IE, click tools, options, delete
temp
| files and tick the box to kill offline content as well. That's usually
what
| it means when you can only save as .BMP but I'm not so sure why it'd be a
| human instead. I'd try that first.
|
| Galen

Thanks Gary.

The original "Stationery" was posted to a News Group about a year ago. At
that time I saved it ("Save As") to My Documents folder and renamed the
extension from .NWS to EML so that I could E-Mail the Stationery to friends.

However, I'm not sure how I can send it to a Newsgroup, i.e. this one, so
you can examine it.

The good news is I have been able to save the Deer picture. I did this by
renaming the Stationery extension to .UUE and double-clicking the altered
icon. This separated the Stationery into four parts as icons, two texts and
three graphics (background,deer and that !!*?#!! "human".)

Nevertheless I'd still like to know why I ran into the original problem.
Thanks again for your interest.

Andy I.


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
| Where is the original picture located? On your local system? Is this a
website?
| If the latter, can you give us a link so that we can see what's there?
| Stationery can be weird stuff.
|
| --
| Gary S. Terhune
| MS-MVP Shell/User

Well, feel free to email it to me at , but I think you've
already answered your own question. I don't know how Stationery files are built,
exactly, but the concept of "layers" is perhaps part of it, and whatever you
were using to view it (Internet Explorer?) only had access to the top layer when
it saved. That's *one* possibility among many. I'll be able to tell you more
after I get a chance to play with it.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User


"brackenburn" [email protected] this bit- ca wrote in message
...
Thanks Gary.

The original "Stationery" was posted to a News Group about a year ago. At
that time I saved it ("Save As") to My Documents folder and renamed the
extension from .NWS to EML so that I could E-Mail the Stationery to friends.

However, I'm not sure how I can send it to a Newsgroup, i.e. this one, so
you can examine it.

The good news is I have been able to save the Deer picture. I did this by
renaming the Stationery extension to .UUE and double-clicking the altered
icon. This separated the Stationery into four parts as icons, two texts and
three graphics (background,deer and that !!*?#!! "human".)

Nevertheless I'd still like to know why I ran into the original problem.
Thanks again for your interest.

Andy I.


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
| Where is the original picture located? On your local system? Is this a
website?
| If the latter, can you give us a link so that we can see what's there?
| Stationery can be weird stuff.
|
| --
| Gary S. Terhune
| MS-MVP Shell/User