new forum limits?

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• Jim Ewald Posts: 733

  2010-08-08 21:42 edited 2010-08-08 21:42

  The limits are generally larger. Images have size (dimension) limits to prevent super wide images from breaking the overall page layout. We can adjust upward as required.
• ratronic Posts: 1,451

  2010-08-08 21:53 edited 2010-08-08 21:53

  Thanks Jim
• Humanoido Posts: 5,770

  2010-08-09 10:59 edited 2010-08-09 10:59

  Is there a quick and easy way to know the dimensions of the photo?
  
  Humanoido
• W9GFO Posts: 4,010

  2010-08-09 11:03 edited 2010-08-09 11:03

  Just for images, you can create a photo album and load images into it. If they are too big, they will be automatically resized. You can then copy the url of the image and use it inline in a post.
  
  An image attachment size limit of 800 x 800 has been recommended, seems good to me.
  
  Rich H
• Sapieha Posts: 2,964

  2010-08-09 11:08 edited 2010-08-09 11:08

  W9GFO wrote: »

  Just for images, you can create a photo album and load images into it. If they are too big, they will be automatically resized. You can then copy the url of the image and use it inline in a post.
  
  An image attachment size limit of 800 x 800 has been recommended, seems good to me.
  
  Rich H

  
  
  It is NOT so simple -->
  I mostly use Images captured from screen and after resizing them are not readable in most cases.
• W9GFO Posts: 4,010

  2010-08-09 11:22 edited 2010-08-09 11:22

  Here's an 800 x 800 screen capture. I tried to upload an 800 x 1,200 but it was resized by the forum.
  
  How much bigger do you need?
  
  
  
  Rich H

  

  

  800x800.jpg

  800 x 800 - 88K

  800x800.jpg 87.6K
• Sapieha Posts: 2,964

  2010-08-09 12:10 edited 2010-08-09 12:10

  W9GFO wrote: »

  Here's an 800 x 800 screen capture. I tried to upload an 800 x 1,200 but it was resized by the forum.
  
  How much bigger do you need?
  
  
  
  Rich H

  
  Hi W9GFO
  I have NOT problems with resizing pictures when them are posted as IN LINE
  BUT in attachments it is not good idea AS many times it is needed to send entire Print Screen image - On my computer it is -> 1920x1080 but I know some one have bigger resolutions.
  
  

  

  

  Print Screen.jpg

  800 x 450 - 60K

  Print Screen.jpg 59.7K
• W9GFO Posts: 4,010

  2010-08-09 12:36 edited 2010-08-09 12:36

  I understand. I wonder if there is the ability to only resize the inline image. Probably not.
  
  However, a zip attachment can be up to 4.77 MB.
  
  Attached is a 1680 x 1050 screen capture.
  
  Here it is inline using DropBox;
  
  
  
  Rich H

  zip

  zip

  Screen.jpg.zip

  215K

  Screen.jpg.zip 215.1K
• Whit Posts: 4,191

  2010-08-09 13:05 edited 2010-08-09 13:05

  Humanoido wrote: »

  Is there a quick and easy way to know the dimensions of the photo?
  
  Humanoido

  
  Humanoido,
  
  I use a piece of freeware called Paint.net. It will let you do all sorts of things to your images including crop and resize to a specific size. Hope this helps!
• Humanoido Posts: 5,770

  2010-08-09 13:09 edited 2010-08-09 13:09

  I have hundreds of posts and none of the images were resized after the transfer to the new forum. What is the solution for this?
• Sapieha Posts: 2,964

  2010-08-09 13:15 edited 2010-08-09 13:15

  W9GFO wrote: »

  I understand. I wonder if there is the ability to only resize the inline image. Probably not.
  
  However, a zip attachment can be up to 4.77 MB.
  
  Attached is a 1680 x 1050 screen capture.
  
  Here it is inline using DropBox;
  
  
  
  Rich H

  
  Hi W9GFO
  BUT start open Yours Attachment ---> IT is resized and very ugly
  THAT IS PROBLEM
• W9GFO Posts: 4,010

  2010-08-09 14:06 edited 2010-08-09 14:06

  Sapieha wrote: »

  Hi W9GFO
  BUT start open Yours Attachment ---> IT is resized and very ugly
  THAT IS PROBLEM

  
  I downloaded it, and opened it. It does look bad at first because it displays at less than 100% to enable the whole image to fit within the window. Make it full size and it is fine.
  
  Are you sure that you are viewing it at 100%?
  
  Rich H
• Sapieha Posts: 2,964

  2010-08-09 14:09 edited 2010-08-09 14:09

  W9GFO wrote: »

  I downloaded it, and opened it. It does look bad at first because it displays at less than 100% to enable the whole image to fit within the window. Make it full size and it is fine.
  
  Are you sure that you are viewing it at 100%?
  
  Rich H

  
  Yes If You download .zip
  
  BUT use Thumbnails to open it
• potatohead Posts: 10,261

  2010-08-09 14:38 edited 2010-08-09 14:38

  Ahh... Now we are getting somewhere. This software deals with a larger inline better than the old stuff did. Cool.
• W9GFO Posts: 4,010

  2010-08-09 14:49 edited 2010-08-09 14:49

  Sapieha wrote: »

  Yes If You download .zip
  
  BUT use Thumbnails to open it

  
  I removed the thumbnail for my post that has the huge image in it. That was the result of uploading as an attachment and it was severely compressed as a result. I did not intend to leave it there.
  
  DropBox is a very easy solution. Just save your image into the dropbox public folder, right click and copy the public link.
  You could use it as a link to the image like this or display it inline.
  
  
  
  Rich H
• Sapieha Posts: 2,964

  2010-08-09 14:58 edited 2010-08-09 14:58

  W9GFO wrote: »

  I removed the thumbnail for my post that has the huge image in it. That was the result of uploading as an attachment and it was severely compressed as a result. I did not intend to leave it there.
  
  DropBox is a very easy solution. Just save your image into the dropbox public folder, right click and copy the public link.
  You could use it as a link to the image like this or display it inline.
  
  
  
  Rich H

  
  Hi W9GFO
  
  Sorry if I say it on that way.
  If I need download software that are not Part of ATTACHMENT system on forum THAT is already VERY BAD.
  We have attachment box in EDIT window and if it work correctly --- NO needs for that EXTRA software.
  
  Is not Computer that shall control ME, It is I that will control it in way I know is possible.
  
• Heater. Posts: 21,230

  2010-08-09 15:51 edited 2010-08-09 15:51

  In my opinion having threads on this forum full of images that are on different system like Dropbox is a really bad idea.
  
  It's all out of control then. One day DropBox will drop of the net or get moved and bam there goes the integrity/consistency of the threads here.
• W9GFO Posts: 4,010

  2010-08-09 16:01 edited 2010-08-09 16:01

  Then that is a very good argument for being very generous with file size limits.
  
  Rich H
• Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514

  2010-08-15 01:46 edited 2010-08-15 01:46

  One thing I now notice about this forum that's different from the old one is that a post that's wider than my browser window does not make the whole page too wide -- just the one post. In the old forum, that was not the case. One too-wide image would screw up the entire page for viewing. For that reason, I would say that there's less of a reason to put a pixel limit on image attachments.
  
  OTOH, I can see absolutely zero justification for displaying an entire 1920 x 1440 screen capture inline. That's an absurd waste of pixels and a huge annoyance to try to view. If you want to display a screen dump, either resize the window before capturing it, or crop it afterwards. The portion of a window required to make one's point in the forum virtually never takes up an entire large screen.
  
  -Phil