[Clipart] downloading with firefox

Adam Pearson munmorah at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 08:28:18 PDT 2007


Have you clicked the "save image as"??  mine gives me the thing in the
form ####.htm, which I cannot open in an image editor.

adam

On 19/09/2007, Gerald Ganson <Gerald.Ganson at rdc.ab.ca> wrote:
> My Firefox allows "Save image as" for each PNG I encounter.
>
> Right click the image to access.
>
> I'm running 2.0.0.6 - any chance it's a version thing ?
>
> 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 9:11 AM
> To: Gerald Ganson
> Cc: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] downloading with firefox
>
> 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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