[WEB4LIB] Re: Uploading graphics
Andrew Mutch
amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us
Tue Dec 21 14:30:02 EST 1999
I checked this and the problem is with the file names. Somewhere in the
process, they are being renamed to .jpeg.
If you look for the file using filename.jpeg, they show up. Unfortuntately, in
the HTML source code, the files names are .jpg. There lies the problem.
Andrew Mutch
Library System Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI
Dorothy Day wrote:
> Further guess--are you sure the file(s) transfered as binary files, not
> text? That certainly causes broken image links.
>
> Dorothy Day
>
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Dan Lester wrote:
>
> > At 10:36 AM 12/21/99 -0800, dAVe burlingame wrote:
> >
> > >first guess...could your ftp program be transferring the images, but
> > >forcing a lower-case name? is "Rendering" showing up as "rendering?"
> > >it's for that very reason we never use caps for file names; makes for
> > >confusion in the long run.
> >
> > That's a good guess, but trying to load a file with lowercase "rendering"
> > also doesn't do it. I fully agree on never using ANY uppercase in file
> > names.
> >
> > I don't know either your editor or your FTP program, but since most people
> > put their graphics in an "images" or similar folder, are you sure you
> > didn't do that and forget to put that in the link? It seems clear that
> > "Rendering.jpg" is not in the directory you think it is in....or isn't on
> > the server at all.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Good, Fast, and Cheap: Which two of the three would you like?
> > Dan Lester, 3577 East Pecan, Boise, ID 83716 USA 208-383-0165
> > dan at 84.com http://www.84.com/ http://www.postcard.org/
> >
>
> *****
> Dorothy Day
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> Indiana University
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> *****
>
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