[Clipart] downloading with firefox

Adam Pearson munmorah at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 08:10:38 PDT 2007


Yes I can do that but many (not all ...!!??) png images can't be
downloaded like that, in fact I can't find a way to download many of
them at all.

adam


On 19/09/2007, Gerald Ganson <Gerald.Ganson at rdc.ab.ca> wrote:
> I've found in FireFox, if you actually click on the SVG to open it as
> it's own page, you can right click and select "Save Page As", and it
> then is ready to save as "SVG".
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Gerald
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org
> [mailto:clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Adam Pearson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 4:35 AM
> To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] downloading with firefox
>
> Uh uh ... with Firefox, right click lets you "Save link as" and when you
> go to do that, it is a htm page.  For example, Calendar Icon
> (Large) by jiligan http://openclipart.org/media/files/jilagan/4491
> saves as 5563.htm.  You can left click the png label till it displays on
> a page, then right click lets you save the image as a png. Others, such
> as my sandcastle 2 http://openclipart.org/media/files/addon/4303,
> the png, only lets you save as an htm page.
>
> This is all a bit confusing.  Everything works nicely with IE, but my
> browser of choice is Firefox and I would prefer to use it, without
> swapping around when I need to download from the OCAL.
>
> Adam
>
> On 18/09/2007, Nicu Buculei <nicu_gfx at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
> > Adam Pearson wrote:
> > > Is it just me or is it not possible to download svg images with
> > > Firefox except by a roundabout way, and not possible to download
> > > other formats at all?
> > >
> > > Firefox can be made to save a svg file as a page.  All you can do
> > > with other formats is save as a htm file.
> >
> > Other formats like the PNG thumbnails? For those just view them, right
>
> > click and "Save Image As"
> >
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