IE question: Why is it that sometimes I can save images as their original gif/jpg format, and sometimes it'll only let me save it as a bmp?

March 9, 2004 11:48 AM

IE question: Why is it that sometimes I can save images as their original gif/jpg format, and sometimes it'll only let me save it as a bmp?
posted by oissubke to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

I understood it was a cache problem - I cleaned mine out and had no more problems.
posted by agregoli at 11:52 AM on March 9, 2004

Article here:
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posted by dodgygeezer at 11:53 AM on March 9, 2004

Interesting. I've often wondered this myself. Thanks for the article, dodgygeezer. I'm still a little foggy on the "why," but I'll be trying those workarounds.
posted by scarabic at 12:37 PM on March 9, 2004

Refreshing the page alone usually does the trick for me.
posted by GeekAnimator at 2:24 PM on March 9, 2004

On a related note, my bank's web site lets me view scans of my cancelled checks online, but if I try to print the page, the images print (and preview) as the squares with the red Xs in IE6. I always thought this had something to do with the JPG/BMP problem, but I could never figure that one out. Firefox, which I've been using for about a week at the urging of many people here, works fine though.
posted by AstroGuy at 10:42 PM on March 9, 2004

AstroGuy: I believe the problem you're having has to do with the fact that IE insists on refreshing the page (actually reloading it) when you try and print it out. This causes all sorts of problems.
posted by bshort at 6:36 AM on March 10, 2004