Re: [math-fun] Dropbox still a pain in the ass...
There are 2 problems: 1. Getting the .gif file itself downloaded, rather than some .jpg still image approximation. Hopefully, appending "?dl=1" to the URL will fix this problem. 2. Once you have the .gif file itself downloaded, displaying it in animated form might require a tiny bit of work. On Windows, .gif files might be claimed by one or more web browsers (Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc.), as well as "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer", Paint, Quicktime Player, etc. I find that "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer" is a bit slow to load, but it provides acceptable results. Most browsers also provide adequate display. Note that different browsers animate .gif files with different frame rates; I'm not aware that .gif files have a particular standard frame rate. I haven't searched for info on how to change the .gif frame rate in a browser, but I assume that it is one of the myriad changeable parameters (in Firefox check the "page" about:config). At 01:25 PM 8/28/2015, Fred Lunnon wrote:
The problems begin once you have accessed the file --- if you get lucky, your system does the right thing: in this case, run the animated .GIF in your browser. If not, you have to tinker in some unpreductable fashion, as Henry and I both discovered.
WFL
On 8/28/15, Mike Speciner <ms@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
As near as I can tell, if you place a file in your Public dropbox subdirectory and copy the public link, then it is directly accessible to anyone using that link.
--ms
On 28-Aug-15 10:34, Henry Baker wrote:
Downloading this gif still required:
1. Turning on javascript (aka p0wnscript) for dropbox.com 2. Turning on javascript for dropboxstatic.com 3. Turning on javascript for ajax.googleapis.com
4. And then going through a dialog to say that I didn't want to sign up for Dropbox.
5. And then finally clicking on a "download" button.
Remember, you need "?dl=1" instead of "?dl=0" at the end of the URL below in order to get the damn thing to download immediately.
At 05:31 PM 8/27/2015, Fred Lunnon wrote:
And Fred Lunnon seizes the opportunity to wheel out his animation of the seven-link robot / rigid kaleidocycle at https://www.dropbox.com/s/aeo6rxtc5j4p291/sevenring.gif?dl=0
What HB may not have realised is that many people can probably run these animations with no trouble --- eg. despite tripping up on a 2-year old i-Mac with 1-year old OS, they apparently fire up fine on an I-phone! WFL On 8/28/15, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
There are 2 problems:
1. Getting the .gif file itself downloaded, rather than some .jpg still image approximation. Hopefully, appending "?dl=1" to the URL will fix this problem.
2. Once you have the .gif file itself downloaded, displaying it in animated form might require a tiny bit of work. On Windows, .gif files might be claimed by one or more web browsers (Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc.), as well as "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer", Paint, Quicktime Player, etc. I find that "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer" is a bit slow to load, but it provides acceptable results. Most browsers also provide adequate display.
Note that different browsers animate .gif files with different frame rates; I'm not aware that .gif files have a particular standard frame rate. I haven't searched for info on how to change the .gif frame rate in a browser, but I assume that it is one of the myriad changeable parameters (in Firefox check the "page" about:config).
At 01:25 PM 8/28/2015, Fred Lunnon wrote:
The problems begin once you have accessed the file --- if you get lucky, your system does the right thing: in this case, run the animated .GIF in your browser. If not, you have to tinker in some unpreductable fashion, as Henry and I both discovered.
WFL
On 8/28/15, Mike Speciner <ms@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
As near as I can tell, if you place a file in your Public dropbox subdirectory and copy the public link, then it is directly accessible to anyone using that link.
--ms
On 28-Aug-15 10:34, Henry Baker wrote:
Downloading this gif still required:
1. Turning on javascript (aka p0wnscript) for dropbox.com 2. Turning on javascript for dropboxstatic.com 3. Turning on javascript for ajax.googleapis.com
4. And then going through a dialog to say that I didn't want to sign up for Dropbox.
5. And then finally clicking on a "download" button.
Remember, you need "?dl=1" instead of "?dl=0" at the end of the URL below in order to get the damn thing to download immediately.
At 05:31 PM 8/27/2015, Fred Lunnon wrote:
And Fred Lunnon seizes the opportunity to wheel out his animation of the seven-link robot / rigid kaleidocycle at https://www.dropbox.com/s/aeo6rxtc5j4p291/sevenring.gif?dl=0
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Using firefox under windows 8.1, and changing the ending 0 of your link to a 1, gave me a choice to "save" or "open with". By default, (on my system) it opened with Irfanview and rotated nicely. Curiously, both "save" and "save as" within Irfanview were greyed out, not allowing me to save it to my hard disk. (Probably, it had been saved in some temp directory, but I did not pursue that). On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
What HB may not have realised is that many people can probably run these animations with no trouble --- eg. despite tripping up on a 2-year old i-Mac with 1-year old OS, they apparently fire up fine on an I-phone! WFL
On 8/28/15, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
There are 2 problems:
1. Getting the .gif file itself downloaded, rather than some .jpg still image approximation. Hopefully, appending "?dl=1" to the URL will fix this problem.
2. Once you have the .gif file itself downloaded, displaying it in animated form might require a tiny bit of work. On Windows, .gif files might be claimed by one or more web browsers (Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc.), as well as "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer", Paint, Quicktime Player, etc. I find that "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer" is a bit slow to load, but it provides acceptable results. Most browsers also provide adequate display.
Note that different browsers animate .gif files with different frame rates; I'm not aware that .gif files have a particular standard frame rate. I haven't searched for info on how to change the .gif frame rate in a browser, but I assume that it is one of the myriad changeable parameters (in Firefox check the "page" about:config).
At 01:25 PM 8/28/2015, Fred Lunnon wrote:
The problems begin once you have accessed the file --- if you get lucky, your system does the right thing: in this case, run the animated .GIF in your browser. If not, you have to tinker in some unpreductable fashion, as Henry and I both discovered.
WFL
On 8/28/15, Mike Speciner <ms@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
As near as I can tell, if you place a file in your Public dropbox subdirectory and copy the public link, then it is directly accessible to anyone using that link.
--ms
On 28-Aug-15 10:34, Henry Baker wrote:
Downloading this gif still required:
1. Turning on javascript (aka p0wnscript) for dropbox.com 2. Turning on javascript for dropboxstatic.com 3. Turning on javascript for ajax.googleapis.com
4. And then going through a dialog to say that I didn't want to sign up for Dropbox.
5. And then finally clicking on a "download" button.
Remember, you need "?dl=1" instead of "?dl=0" at the end of the URL below in order to get the damn thing to download immediately.
At 05:31 PM 8/27/2015, Fred Lunnon wrote:
And Fred Lunnon seizes the opportunity to wheel out his animation of the seven-link robot / rigid kaleidocycle at https://www.dropbox.com/s/aeo6rxtc5j4p291/sevenring.gif?dl=0
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May I suggest imgur.com for future images? The website was made to handle the millions of images uploaded every day for reddit posts. You can either drag & drop the image onto the webpage or browse & select. On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 3:05 PM, James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote:
Using firefox under windows 8.1, and changing the ending 0 of your link to a 1, gave me a choice to "save" or "open with". By default, (on my system) it opened with Irfanview and rotated nicely. Curiously, both "save" and "save as" within Irfanview were greyed out, not allowing me to save it to my hard disk. (Probably, it had been saved in some temp directory, but I did not pursue that).
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
What HB may not have realised is that many people can probably run these animations with no trouble --- eg. despite tripping up on a 2-year old i-Mac with 1-year old OS, they apparently fire up fine on an I-phone! WFL
On 8/28/15, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
There are 2 problems:
1. Getting the .gif file itself downloaded, rather than some .jpg still image approximation. Hopefully, appending "?dl=1" to the URL will fix this problem.
2. Once you have the .gif file itself downloaded, displaying it in animated form might require a tiny bit of work. On Windows, .gif files might be claimed by one or more web browsers (Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc.), as well as "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer", Paint, Quicktime Player, etc. I find that "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer" is a bit slow to load, but it provides acceptable results. Most browsers also provide adequate display.
Note that different browsers animate .gif files with different frame rates; I'm not aware that .gif files have a particular standard frame rate. I haven't searched for info on how to change the .gif frame rate in a browser, but I assume that it is one of the myriad changeable parameters (in Firefox check the "page" about:config).
At 01:25 PM 8/28/2015, Fred Lunnon wrote:
The problems begin once you have accessed the file --- if you get lucky, your system does the right thing: in this case, run the animated .GIF in your browser. If not, you have to tinker in some unpreductable fashion, as Henry and I both discovered.
WFL
On 8/28/15, Mike Speciner <ms@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
As near as I can tell, if you place a file in your Public dropbox subdirectory and copy the public link, then it is directly accessible to anyone using that link.
--ms
On 28-Aug-15 10:34, Henry Baker wrote:
Downloading this gif still required:
1. Turning on javascript (aka p0wnscript) for dropbox.com 2. Turning on javascript for dropboxstatic.com 3. Turning on javascript for ajax.googleapis.com
4. And then going through a dialog to say that I didn't want to sign up for Dropbox.
5. And then finally clicking on a "download" button.
Remember, you need "?dl=1" instead of "?dl=0" at the end of the URL below in order to get the damn thing to download immediately.
At 05:31 PM 8/27/2015, Fred Lunnon wrote: > And Fred Lunnon seizes the opportunity to wheel out his animation > of the seven-link robot / rigid kaleidocycle at > https://www.dropbox.com/s/aeo6rxtc5j4p291/sevenring.gif?dl=0
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Google Drive? There must be some way to generate a link to a file on the server --- but this most basic function is so well-concealed I am unable to disinter it ... Does anybody have opinions on relative merits, especially general compatibility? WFL On 8/28/15, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
May I suggest imgur.com for future images? The website was made to handle the millions of images uploaded every day for reddit posts. You can either drag & drop the image onto the webpage or browse & select.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 3:05 PM, James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote:
Using firefox under windows 8.1, and changing the ending 0 of your link to a 1, gave me a choice to "save" or "open with". By default, (on my system) it opened with Irfanview and rotated nicely. Curiously, both "save" and "save as" within Irfanview were greyed out, not allowing me to save it to my hard disk. (Probably, it had been saved in some temp directory, but I did not pursue that).
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
What HB may not have realised is that many people can probably run these animations with no trouble --- eg. despite tripping up on a 2-year old i-Mac with 1-year old OS, they apparently fire up fine on an I-phone! WFL
On 8/28/15, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
There are 2 problems:
1. Getting the .gif file itself downloaded, rather than some .jpg still image approximation. Hopefully, appending "?dl=1" to the URL will fix this problem.
2. Once you have the .gif file itself downloaded, displaying it in animated form might require a tiny bit of work. On Windows, .gif files might be claimed by one or more web browsers (Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc.), as well as "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer", Paint, Quicktime Player, etc. I find that "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer" is a bit slow to load, but it provides acceptable results. Most browsers also provide adequate display.
Note that different browsers animate .gif files with different frame rates; I'm not aware that .gif files have a particular standard frame rate. I haven't searched for info on how to change the .gif frame rate in a browser, but I assume that it is one of the myriad changeable parameters (in Firefox check the "page" about:config).
At 01:25 PM 8/28/2015, Fred Lunnon wrote:
The problems begin once you have accessed the file --- if you get lucky, your system does the right thing: in this case, run the animated .GIF in your browser. If not, you have to tinker in some unpreductable fashion, as Henry and I both discovered.
WFL
On 8/28/15, Mike Speciner <ms@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
As near as I can tell, if you place a file in your Public dropbox subdirectory and copy the public link, then it is directly accessible to anyone using that link.
--ms
On 28-Aug-15 10:34, Henry Baker wrote: > Downloading this gif still required: > > 1. Turning on javascript (aka p0wnscript) for dropbox.com > 2. Turning on javascript for dropboxstatic.com > 3. Turning on javascript for ajax.googleapis.com > > 4. And then going through a dialog to say that I didn't want to > sign > up > for Dropbox. > > 5. And then finally clicking on a "download" button. > > Remember, you need "?dl=1" instead of "?dl=0" at the end of the URL > below > in order to get the damn thing to download immediately. > > At 05:31 PM 8/27/2015, Fred Lunnon wrote: >> And Fred Lunnon seizes the opportunity to wheel out his animation >> of the seven-link robot / rigid kaleidocycle at >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/aeo6rxtc5j4p291/sevenring.gif?dl=0
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
Google Drive? There must be some way to generate a link to a file on the server --- but this most basic function is so well-concealed I am unable to disinter it ...
On Google Drive, the direct link is very hard to get to. First you have to click share, then "Get shareable link", then open that shareable link in a browser where you're not logged in, then choose the three dots, then choose "embed item", then copy the link out of the iframe source.
Does anybody have opinions on relative merits, especially general compatibility?
Again, imgur.com was designed for the very simplest photo sharing experience possible. You upload an image and get a random-looking URL that no one can guess unless you send it to them. You don't need an account. If you are not logged in, there's a "delete" link that you can copy for future use. If you're logged in, there's a lot of friendly management stuff, but none of it's necessary for simple image sharing: just upload it and send out the link. -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com
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