Damn My Scanner To Hell

“I scanned a black and white drawing in. I saved it in paint titled "table." I tried to attach it to an e-mail (hotmail) and it says it can't find that file. What the feck is the problem? Tech help please.”

“Pretty please! Anybody?”

“save it in "my documents" as a .jpg or .gif file”

“How? Am I a complete moron or what? LOL!”

“I save all my scans into "my pictures". Are you saving into file or Activeshare?”

“Oooh, good idea Sass. I think I'll try that one. Now if I can just get the piece of crap attached to the e-mail, maybe I can get my furniture made in this century.”

“baume has a point newgirl.

First, do a search for the file. I don't know what extension a paint file is (so it would be

table.xxx where "xxx" is the extension

If you find it, open it in your paint program and see if you can do a "save as" and make the extension different, I'd say a .jpg

And then save it where you want, like "My Pictures."

Or... you might have to rescan it. Then save as I said above. Don't use the automatic Paint extension that "save" will give you. Manually take it to the .jpg.

I think you should save it as .jpg because it is a universal photo file that anyone can open. I would guess they couldn't open the Paint file, unless they actually have the Paint program on their computer.

Good luck!”

“To attach it to a hotmail email, click attach. Browse (find the file, double click it). It should show up in the box to the right. Then click OK. This takes you back to your hotmail message. You will see the filename listed under attachments if you successfully attached it. BCC (Blind carbon copy) yourself to make sure the receive really did get the file. If it is a jpeg it will show up in the body of the email.”

“I have absolutely nothing to contribute, but I did want to say that the title of this thread totally cracked me up.”

“Yeah, I just wanted to burn off some anger. I hate the !$%& and I was about to punch it.”

“The instructions that come with the HP scanjets leave alittle something to be desired don't they?”

“Yeah, there isn't a thing in them.”

“just a Nota Bene for ya...when saving pics...the generic microsoft paint program saves them a a bitmap file (bmp, I think)...which tend to be HUGE. SO, when you're fighting with your blasted scanner and finally get something to save...it's best to SAVE AS a .jpg file...they're smaller and you should be able to compress it automatically as well..which makes it attachment-friendly

couldn't help it..the computer geek coming out in me :oP good luck!”