[plug] email with copyright protection? Maybe a bit [OT]?

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:53:19 +0800, Daniel Pearson <gpearson at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Polglaze" <apolglaze at book-keepingnetwork.com.au>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 8:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [plug] email with copyright protection? Maybe a bit [OT]?
> 
> > G'day all,
> >
> >
> > >>>I sent this person a jpeg file. She claims she received it, can see a
> > >>>thumbnail view of it, but can't open it or save it. She says she gets
> > >>>warnings about copyright violation when she tries.
> > >>
> > >>It could be the client doing it.
> >
> > Coming a bit late, but one of the members of our Rotary Club has a similar
> > problem with a different message.
> >
> > He is running Norton and following an automatic update several months ago,
> can
> > no longer save or open attachments.
> 
> Are you sure it was the Norton update that did it? If they're using Outlook
> Express, go into Tools > Options > Security and make sure that "Do not allow
> attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus" isn't
> ticked.. sometimes when OE updates, it automagically turns on that option..

That sounds painful. And it could also be the cause. Although she
specifically said it mentioned copyright and getting permission from
the originator, whatever that means. I suspect it's one of those
things that I'll never know the answer to unless I come across the
software first hand.

But to bring it back on topic. This problem came about because she
couldn't read the file on a cd. I spoke with others who use photoshop
and they say they've generated jpegs that couldn't be read in windows.
I googled a bit for 'unreadable jpeg' and found some comments on a
photoshop list about others having this problem with win98 (winxp can
read it). I tried it myself and none of the win98 specific software I
have could open it or read it correctly. But I thought, why not give
OOo's win98 version a shot at it. Opened up a drawing, imported the
jpeg, and lo and behold, there it was, perfect. Good on ya OOo!  ;)

And more good news for os software. I opened the jpeg in gimp, saved
it as a gimp file, then saved it again as a jpeg, and that jpeg
worked. We could view it in all the win98 apps, no worries.


> 
> > I don't think he gets the copyright message, but something similar.
> >
> > BTW, calls to the help desk have proved very unhelpful and nobody has been
> able
> > to solve his problem yet.
> >
> >
> > Alex
> >
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> >
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
> 
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Regards,
Russ