Posting PDF documents

[Andrew BinningParticipant @andrewbinning37010]

Hi Neil,

I have replied to a post in the live steam topics and have received requests from subscribers for a copy of an ME article in Vol 141. I have scanned the article but I cannot see a way of attaching a PDF to a post or to an email on the website.

[Andrew BinningParticipant @andrewbinning37010]

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

IIRC this website will only post jpeg pics; any pics I have posted I have had to convert / save as jpeg before I can place in my album.

George.

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Everything that's uploaded here is jpg

If you open up a pdf you can take a picture of a single page in the document with the camera icon

click the icon

click the page you want, (you get a camera click noise)

open up windows paint

paste the picture into windows paint

save the picture as a jpg in a place you can find it

This page can now be uploaded

GL

edit. The quality isn't too bad

Edited By Ady1 on 19/06/2020 12:11:57

[Clive FosterParticipant @clivefoster55965]

Andrew

I think this sort of thing is best done person to person via private E-Mail. Much easier than futzing about converting to jpg.

I imagine there are also potential copyright / ownership issues relating to posting on an open forum.

Its long past time the "internet" got to grips with a micro-payments system for copyright owners by automatically tracking a document and grabbing a few pence via your internet provided every time a document is downloaded to a new recipient. How hard can it be to have an allowance for "a decent number of MB of copyright data per month tacked onto your internet subscription. If its only a few un-missed pennies per MB it will soon add up to something useful for anything popular.

Clive

[egaParticipant @ega]

Posted by Clive Foster on 19/06/2020 12:19:48:

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micro-payments system for copyright owners…

Just wondering if alcs.co.uk might be relevant to this suggestion.

[Gary WoodingParticipant @garywooding25363]

You could put the PDF in a cloud (eg. GoogleDrive or MyDrive) and insert a link to it in your post.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

PM is best they nobody gets upset about copy right.

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