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OmniFormat is the name of the product, and you can download it at omniformat.com. It's freeware, and they put you through a lot of BS to get it installed. However, once it's installed, it's brilliant.
I blog at Wordpress.com, and in order to upload images to my blog, they must be in .gif or .jpg format. No Office extensions, no common .mht or .htm or .png files will work. PDFs are not welcome, which is too bad, because it's easy to convert stuff to PDF's. Up until now, I've been stuck. Along comes OmniFormat, and all of a sudden I'm in a Disney movie.
The software comes with a little file folder. You drag and drop the various files with their useless,non-uploadable formats into the file folder. You press the button and wait 10 seconds while the OmniFormat gremlins sprinkle fairy dust all over your files. Open the folder again, and all your files are right where they were, only now they end in .jpg, or .gif, or any one of another 50 or so formats available to you. Free, fast, and slick.
With all of my cool Excel spreadsheets now uploadable, I'm expecting my blog readership to grow by around 50%, from 12 to 18 readers a week. You too can get results like these by letting the fairies at OmniFormat convert your files for you.
Here is one of my spreadsheets, converted by OmniFormat to a graph-ic.
I blog at Wordpress.com, and in order to upload images to my blog, they must be in .gif or .jpg format. No Office extensions, no common .mht or .htm or .png files will work. PDFs are not welcome, which is too bad, because it's easy to convert stuff to PDF's. Up until now, I've been stuck. Along comes OmniFormat, and all of a sudden I'm in a Disney movie.
The software comes with a little file folder. You drag and drop the various files with their useless,non-uploadable formats into the file folder. You press the button and wait 10 seconds while the OmniFormat gremlins sprinkle fairy dust all over your files. Open the folder again, and all your files are right where they were, only now they end in .jpg, or .gif, or any one of another 50 or so formats available to you. Free, fast, and slick.
With all of my cool Excel spreadsheets now uploadable, I'm expecting my blog readership to grow by around 50%, from 12 to 18 readers a week. You too can get results like these by letting the fairies at OmniFormat convert your files for you.
Here is one of my spreadsheets, converted by OmniFormat to a graph-ic.
Tags: .gif, .jpg, conversion, file, freeware, omniformat
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Permalink Reply by Nila Nealy on -
Thanks for sharing, Bruce. This is great to know.
Of course, my favorite bit is... "With all of my cool Excel spreadsheets now uploadable, I'm expecting my blog readership to grow by around 50%, from 12 to 18 readers a week. You too can get results like these by letting the fairies at OmniFormat convert your files for you." Brilliant.
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Permalink Reply by Jim Brown on -
Or you can download an even smaller program called Faststone Capture and take 'pictures' of anything on your screen, and automagically make them jpegs. The two images here were created in 4.2 seconds by using Faststone Capture.
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Permalink Reply by Jim Brown on
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What's even better - is it has the tools with it to automagically (I like that fake word) add highlights, text, arrows, you name it.
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Permalink Reply by Nila Nealy on
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Way cool. I wouldn't know this stuff unless my fellow Smoosiers were talking about it.
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Permalink Reply by Erik Deckers on -
Huh. I was going to suggest just hitting Print Screen and then cropping the image in Photoshop, but both Bruce's and Jim's program sound cool.
Now if only Jim had included a link on how to get to it. Or if there were some sort of engine on which I could search for the program.
Oh, what to do, what to do. . . ?
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Permalink Reply by Jim Brown on
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I'm sorry - I'm sorry: http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm - Best $20 you will ever spend.
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