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From: Capn Zip <>
Subject: Re: Printing Ancestry.com Census images
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 17:39:00 GMT
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In article <tiLK8.20434$A%>,
says...
> In soc.genealogy.computing Capn Zip <> says:
>
> : I upgraded to 3.7 and added the plug-in to Irfanview, but I don't know
> : how to use the plug-in. I copied the image out of MrSid in BMP format
> : to disk and then printed out from Irfanview, but I think you are doing
> : something else. Could you explain? Thanks.
>
> The Irfan plug-in works automagically; you don't have to do
> anything except call up the image (sound, movie, whatever) in
> I-view once you've installed it.
>
> The fact that you're getting a BMP image, and not a SID image,
> says that you're probably using Netscape and not IE. (I discovered
> the same thing.) Sorry to say, but the plugin isn't really
> designed for any browser other than Internet Explorer. You'll
> have to use IE in order to get the real SID image.
>
> A BMP is just fine, in terms of resolution, but I found that the
> image saved in Netscape is only what you saw in the browser. The
> SID image, by comparison, contains the entire census page.
>
> As a bonus, you can zoom and pan the saved image in IE instead of
> having to do it online, so if you're on a slow dialup or just
> pressed for time, save the images to disk and browse them later.

Paul:

I am using IE, the latest version, so I must be doing something wrong.

The way I've tried to use the Sid plug-in in Irfan is to go the the
Ancestry site, get my image on the screen (full screen), then I save it
to file. However, when I save the image by clicking on the right mouse
button, I get only 2 choices for format: bmp and jpg. There is no .sid
alternative. Any suggestions? Or should I be following a different
procedure, such as not saving to disk?

Your advice would be appreciated.

Peter

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