People, please don't send bmp files. bmp files are ten to twenty
times
larger
than jpg's. This bmp file was 1.75 meg. After I converted it to a
jpg
with Linux
xv it was 113K. Huge bmp's clog up my ISP, fill up my hard disk
(and
yours) and
take a long time to download with dial up.
Now I understand you are running Windows and Windows, unlike Linux
,comes with
no graphic manipulation utilities to convert file types. So you
will
have
to download some free Windows software from the WWW somehow.
Paul Lamar
Wrong. MS Paint comes with Windows, and can open .BMPs and save them as
.JPGs (or a number of other formats). I have verified this in Windows
2000,
and WindowsXP.
Harrison Young
That may be true for 2000 and XP but it does not work in 98.
98 Paint won't even load a jpg.
I run 98 because that is what came with the used notebook I have.
Paul Lamar
Harrison Young wrote:
I have attached the version of MS Paint which comes with Windows 2000. I am
betting it will run fine in Windows 98 if anyone needs it.
Harrison Young
Thanks Harrison. I really don't need it however as I don't use Windows
that much. Mostly to run software like Rhino and Master Cam. Linux does
most of everything I need and then some. See below. There is xpaint
that comes with Linux that reads and converts all graphic file formats
as well as xv and Gimp. Gimp is like photo shop. I mostly use xv as I can convert
a file with half a dozen key strokes from bmp to jpg using Xtree for Linux.
I could probably cut that down to 2 or 3 keystrokes if I wrote a script.
There is also the ImageMagick viewer with about 100 graphic
formats to read and convert. I have not used that yet as about all it does
is convert and print.
BTW I use 12 virtual full screens in Linux. You switch virtual screens by clicking
one of the little boxes in the lower right shown in this screen capture.
The six lower boxes are used to display trees of six different directories.
I use Xtree for Linux as it manipulates files with several keystrokes instantaneously.
Each directory holds about 7,000 files and about 650 meg. They are named dir1
through dir6 corresponding with their position in these lower boxes. I limit them to
this size as I back up on CD's. I could back up on DVD and make them a lot larger.
I have about 50,000 accumulated files having run the newsletter for going on six years.
Files could be pictures text, programs or anything else. This way I can look up
any file near instantaneously just by clicking on the proper box.
The upper boxes hold programs like NS email or Mozilla browser or Xpaint or xv etc., etc., etc..
I usually put the programs in standardized positions so I know where to find them
instantaneously. The programs run all the time so it is instantaneous to switch from
one to another. Linux is multi user as well as multi tasking so this is easy
for Linux. I also monitor the network traffic in and out every second and the
memory and CPU usage every three second each in its own virtual full screen.
With out this computer power I would not be able to do this newsletter anywhere near the
relatively small amount of time I spend on it.
Paul Lamar
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