calling anyone who can use a pc better than i can :( :)
i am completely & utterly a pc plonker !!!!!
please could someone help ? i know this is not dog related but .... i need to know how to quickly scan an A4 document send it to email (this i can do) for it to come out at the "otherside" at a size they can read & print. I have just spent 2 &3/4 hours sending 5 pages, for the recipient (sp) not to understand any of it as it came out thier end so big there was only a couple of words on a line & a couple of lines per page. Did make them laugh though but it made me :( !!!! aparently there were loads & loads of pages coming out of thier printer, i only scanned 5 A4 pages.
please if thier is anyone out there who can help a pc plonker i would really appreciate it very much
scatty

I am also a complete technophobe, but what system are you scanning with (I hope I'm soundidng like I know what I mean!!!!) If you are sending "Bitmap" docs it can be like this, you want to use "JPeg" (whatever that is), I gather it's more condensed. (I once sent an old friend a photo and she received an A4 page of numbers!)

oohh thank you for answering, yes it is jpeg whatever that is lol :)
i have no idea how to work these things :(
hope this helps

Yes scatty ...you need to scan the document and then make sure it is saved as a jpg ...this will also make it quicker to send by email if thats what you are doing.

Any other things , drop me an email as I have a very PC orientated hubby and Im sure he can help ;)

Mel

Melody, you said jpg, all my photos are saved as this, but when i send them by email they are sent as somthing else and take ages to send and download, i think it is kip. not sure

but if i save them as jpg, then why dont they send as that :(

Hiya debbie if you have winzip you can zip 'em and send'em makes them smaller and easier to download
Liz:)

Liz you are going to have to go into more detail, It is driving me nuts, could you email me with the details then i can save them, i will crack this. thanks debbie

Liz i have downloaded it, but i dont know where it has gone, lol

with a bit of look a computer wiz will help me, thanks liz

Debbie
it will either be in programmes or accessories but it should come up automatically if you right click the pic
Liz :)

Liz, checked it and it is a black page with nothing on. :( :(

When i save the pics they are in jpg, i can not understand that when i send them it is not in jpg. and one pic can take 4mins to send and download. The comp is going out the window. lol
debbie

THANKS MELODY, i might take you up on that offer if you dont mind in the not too distant future.
many thanks to mel & everyone , i can not get my head round these things lol :)
scatty

Scatty , you need to look at the *dots per inch* apparantly .....on the scan preferences ....reduce the size to about 300 per inch .

HTH

Melody

also if you have a photo suite system installed on computer I am sure you can scan them, resize them in there and then send.... it will make the file smaller and easier to send, but I dont know too much I admit, but I do that with my pics..

Totally
Good job I havent got a scanner!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

i wish i had'nt now Ali :(

If you are scanning for e-mail don't scan above 75dpi, the mionitor only displays in this resolution so anything higher is a waste. Ingrid

Right on, Ingrid!

Recommended resolution for internet photos (etc) is 72 dots per inch. This keeps the filesize down and, consequently, the send time is reduced.

This is also a handy thing to remember if your recipient is using an e-mail account with a limited capacity (e.g. Hotmail) - you won't take up so much of their allocated space.

I did do an NVQ course on Info Tech, but it was 5 years ago and done on a PC - and I haven't had hands on a PC since. This is a Mac, and I've had to learn everything the hard way (University of Trialanderror). Never worry about being less knowledgeable - we were all like that when we started! You'll get these things as you go along - and you'll find people all over who can give you a bit of help (like on this chummy board!).

:)
Snorri
Twilight Zone autodidactic
:D hee hee, look it up! :D

PC Plus for February has included a pdf writer amoungst its free CD's and it does work!! Took me a few hours to work it out but I have been wanting one for a while to put show schedules up on the net.

The only problem I did find (and it was easy to get over) was that it made my default printer the pdf writer so I had to change it back to my canon

HTH

Christine

what you want to do is buy the magazine COmPUTER ACTIVE and that should solve your problems
joe-m

thank you all for your reply's on this, but my pc is going in yet agian to the dreaded pc world to see what else they can do wrong with it :(
i have had problems with my pc for 18 months now & everytime they have it to "fix" it comes out even worse :(
may be this time they might get it right (but i aint holding my breath)
thanks again
scatty