Comments on: Print to JPEG?

Question: Print to JPEG?

Mitheral — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:39:30 -0800

Recommendation for free windows virtual printer driver that outputs JPEGs? Like PDF Creator but creates jpegs instead.

Yahoo photos hides the original image but provides a way to print the image directly to a printer. Right now I'm pointing the print utility to PDF Creator, opening the PDF, extracting each bitmap from the PDF, then batch converting the .BMPs to JPEGS. I'd rather just Print -> Save .jpg

By: null terminated

null terminated — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:48:24 -0800

This may work, but it's complicated.

By: fvw

fvw — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:23:18 -0800

Even printing to a save-to-jpeg target would probably decompress the image and compress it again, resulting in a quality loss. Why not use something like mozilla/firefox's page info → media → save as... and cut out the printing?

By: slavlin

slavlin — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:29:18 -0800

Try Paperless Printer it will print in all types of formats, jpeg included. It functions as a printer to your system.

By: vanoakenfold

vanoakenfold — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:42:19 -0800

If you can see it on the screen, just hit PrintScreen and it is saved to clipboard as an image. Paste in a favorite image editor, crop/etc, save as JPG...

By: amtho

amtho — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:28:55 -0800

For most text or simple pictures/diagrams, a GIF may provide better quality *and* better compression than JPEG.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:40:16 -0800

fvw writes "Why not use something like mozilla/firefox's page info → media → save as... and cut out the printing?"

Yahoo only makes a ~640X480 sized slide available, even if the original is 2592X1944. But you can get the full resolution out of their HomePrint function.

slavlin PaperlessPrinter works, thanks. It keeps on asking to confirm license eligibility which I can live with.

amtho writes "For most text or simple pictures/diagrams, a GIF may provide better quality *and* better compression than JPEG."

These are full colour photographs, besides which even though the Canadian patent on LZW expired 19 months ago I still won't use it unless I have to. Who knows when Unisys's "improvements" are going to make a bunch of software illegal again? Especially since PNG does everything GIF does.

By: misterbrandt

misterbrandt — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:51:40 -0800

Have you tried this Yahoo! full-size photo grabber?

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:21:53 -0800

I have now, 'tis a thing of beauty misterbrandt. I wonder how he's doing that? It would be sweet to have the same funtionality via greasemonkey.

By: misterbrandt

misterbrandt — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:39:48 -0800

Yeah, it's a suggestion/request on the userscripts "ideas page" already. No hint of how long it's been up there though.

By: Elpoca

Elpoca — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:01:11 -0800

PDF Creator can print JPEGs! Just change the file type to JPEG when it asks for the file name.

It can also print to several other image formats.

By: Elpoca

Elpoca — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:03:05 -0800

Also, you can change the quality and resolution of the JPEGs in the Options dialog (JPEG, listed under formats on the left hand side of the dialog).

By: webtom

webtom — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:23:39 -0800

I use cute pdf daily.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:40:14 -0800

Elpoca writes "PDF Creator can print JPEGs! Just change the file type to JPEG when it asks for the file name. "

Well how about that, it can. Though it is limited to single pages.