X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <36C2F399.BDE5E252@concentric.net> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:13:29 -0500 From: Eric Durant X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: microsoft.public.frontpage.client Subject: Re: jpgs save twice and get "fuzzy" References: <36BB5F8D.21FDFD0D@stumpstoneware.com> <36BDD146.295B7E8F@concentric.net> <01be5439$82ec35e0$0400a8c0@kilsen> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>>Tom Lane wrote: >>>>>>I don't know the exact procedures needed to prevent FP from >>>>>>altering the image that you import, but I know it is possible. >>>>"Kevin Ilsen" writes: >>>>>To override FP's default automatic 75% compression, right-click on >>>>>the image that you just inserted into FrontPage Editor (prior to >>>>>saving the page) and select Image Properties from the context >>>>>menu. Change the JPEG compression setting to 100 percent. >>> Tom Lane wrote: >>>>Forcing a resave at "100%" is *not* my idea of an improvement. >>>>(If you don't understand why it's not, consult the JPEG FAQ at >>>>http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/.) >>>> >>>>The objective is to get FP to keep its mitts off the image >>>>entirely. Surely Microsoft's programmers are not so brain-dead >>>>that they didn't provide a way to do that? >>Kevin Spencer wrote in message ... >>>You are correct: MS's programmers are NOT so "brain-dead" that >>>they didn't provide a way to save JPGs without compressing them: >>>Import the images into your web site through FP Explorer before >>>using them in your web pages via FrontPage Editor. It is only when >>>the images are imported through FrontPage Editor that they are >>>compressed by default. >Tom Pepper wrote in message ... >>...and, Kevin, that information is actually in the manual! Kevin Spencer wrote: >Don't tell me that some people are so "brain-dead" that they >don't read the manual!!! ;-) Some would say that one shouldn't have to read a manual to make good use of well designed software. In any case, a documented design flaw is still a design flaw. It was good to read earlier in this thread that FP2K will correct this (probably a natural outcome of combining the Explorer and Editor). Eric Durant --- Website: http://www.edurant.com/ ICQ: 9118339