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23 September 2005

Image Retrieval Question: HELP! →[More:]OK...I'm at this Czech Manuscriptorium page (mostly in english by the by)

The sample manuscripts they have open in a 'MS viewer-v0.15' ===== essentially another window but without the usual firefox menus and a disabled right mouse. 'Print screen' on kb does nothing.

Fear not - it's a harmless viewer if you want to check it out - there wasn't any problems at all on FF1.07 & XP.

The menu it has is pretty minor - just image manipulation stuff really. It allows you to bookmark but I'm sure it's just for the viewing session.

But I want to take piccies with me.

ie. I wish to snaffle them and am asking for aid/abetting in my quest, which only has an aesthetic and not commercial basis.

(oh...I'm liking the Jensky Codex by the by)

Please to be helping.

post by: peacay at: 15:36 | 16 comments

Can you do a screen capture? If you have paint shop pro or photoshop you can, and I think with a mac it's built in? If you can't or don't, you can tell us which ones you want and maybe we can snag them for you.

posted by iconomy 23 September | 15:39

I was just able to load an image by itself, but I have no idea how I did it. I was scrolling around the image with middleclick and it just popped up. here's the image, btw.

posted by puke & cry 23 September | 15:47

i heart the screen captures. when i find those sites with the stoopit javascript right-click disabling i like to screencap and send copies to the site author.

posted by quonsar 23 September | 15:48

Hm, I can go into the javascript properties of firefox and click off the ability for javascript to disable context menu. Then right click on the images and view them by themselves.

Like that.

posted by puke & cry 23 September | 15:52

And I hope your happy, I have an assignment due that I was working on until I messed around with this. hehe. :)

posted by puke & cry 23 September | 15:53

Good idea - disabling the javascript. Also, don't forget that anything you view on the web gets downloaded to your temp or cache or internet files....whatever it's called on your computer. You can go look at (and save) anything in that folder any time you want. Until you delete, of course.

posted by iconomy 23 September | 15:53

it's a medieval peepshow!

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by quonsar 23 September | 15:57

Another way is to have both FireFox windows visible, and click drag the image you want to the tab area of the other window, the image by itself will open in a new tab.

posted by Capn 23 September | 15:58

I'm reading, playing, thinking, feeling a bit dumb and will now need to play some more.

I've only got irfanview on this machine which does screen caps IF the image is in their viewer. I've also got g/monkey extensions with the mouse drag that may interfere with drag/drop of an image.

I'll go try buggerizing around with the java.

Thanks heaps for the help. I'll otherwise throw a very small list of desired images (I hadn't even finally decided yet) if things go awry/I remain stupid or what not.

But it's VERY late here so I'll be better wrapping my brain around it later. Cheers !

posted by peacay 23 September | 16:01

Ah, good work Capn.

posted by puke & cry 23 September | 16:02

Yay puke & cry!! Sorry to interrupt your assignment - I'll write you a note. Heh.

Tweaking JS did the trick!

Love the Firefox.

posted by peacay 23 September | 16:12

Genius, Capn. And so easy.

posted by iconomy 23 September | 16:12

I [heart] firefox
I [infected spleen] web sites that try to break the web

posted by Capn 23 September | 16:12

I had no idea there were so many ways to steal images.

posted by iconomy 23 September | 16:13

Of course, the easiest way do do it would be to run a network packet sniffer on your box and NAT it so it looks like your host, then capture the incomming HTTP stream and decompile the packets re-assembling them and finding the HTTP requests for images then concatenating the reply packets and saving them to a file.

You should probably wear goggles while doing this though.

posted by Capn 23 September | 16:15

≡ Click to see image ≡

And cheers, peacay. Back to watching hurricane coverage...uh, I mean work.

posted by puke & cry 23 September | 16:17

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