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Subject:RE: My cropped graphics won't compress From:"Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com Date:Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:25:55 -0400
Note that IrfanView is *NOT* free for commercial use. It is free
only for personal, non-commercial use. Irfan Skiljan has invested
a lot of time and effort into developing an excellent application,
and he deserves to be compensated in the way that he requests.
Even if you are using it for non-commercial purposes, it seems
only fair to make a small donation to him using one of the PayPal
links on his "Support IrfanView" page. 10 Euros is pretty cheap,
even with the currently lousy USD exchange rate.
>From: "Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>
>To: "Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>, "Edgar D' Souza"
><edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>,"Julia Norquist" <techiejules -at- yahoo -dot- com>
>CC: techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
>Subject: RE: My cropped graphics won't compress
>Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:52:07 -0500
>
>And, depending on the nature of the image files, there are many better
>alternatives than Paint that are free and so pose no cost to the
>employer. The Gimp is excellent for photos; IrfanView is respectable and
>easy to use for simple photo tasks. For illustration work, Inkscape is
>an up-and-coming program that holds a lot of promise, too.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: techwr-l-bounces+jim -dot- pinkham=voith -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+jim -dot- pinkham=voith -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
>Behalf Of Lauren
>Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:57 PM
>To: 'Edgar D' Souza'; 'Julia Norquist'
>Cc: 'techwr-l'
>Subject: RE: My cropped graphics won't compress
>
>Julia,
>
>Ed's questions seem to clear up my confusion about your question if you
>are doing all of your formatting in Word. Are you using Word's built in
>"crop"
>features to resize the image? That doesn't work very well. Put the
>image, preferably the original image but copying the inline graphic will
>work, into a graphics program, preferably a good one, but Paint will
>work, and resize it there.
>
>I've had jobs where I wasn't permitted to use a graphics program because
>the employer didn't have a license, so I had to use Paint. If you have
>to use Paint, then open or paste the image into Paint, select what you
>want and paste it as a new image. Then copy that and paste it back into
>Word.
>
>Dang, I hate tightwads. Why can't they just buy a graphics program?
>They do use graphics. All of those charts and screenshots are graphics.
>Cheapskates.
>
>Lauren
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