July 20, 2007
Shortcuts to generating an image set, plus development check
I had a student come to me the other day with a bunch of images that he’d scanned. The scanner software output it as pdfs, and of course he couldn’t work from them. Thinking it might help, he put the pdfs in Microsoft Word. (I’ve seen other folks do this, too. They think that by putting the images in Word, they’re saving them?) I was about to steer him toward an image editor when it dawned on me that we could just save the document as a web page, and the web page would have a tidy little set of images associated with it. It indeed worked–it spit them out as gifs.
I’ve since experimented further and have discovered that if you started from jpgs, you get jpgs.
So this is a neat little tactic, and no mucking about with image editors required.
And: I think the latest Flash Player handles gifs — should we start accepting them into the database?
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