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kennedy · Oct 9, 2003, 08:11 AM

I got a mail message with a scan of a magazine article. Its 1MB or more, so it should be a pretty legible scan. I can see it right in my email, but it is small! I need to zoom in to have any prayer of reading the text. But Mail doesn't seem to have a zoom view.

So, I tried to drag the image out onto the desktop. No go. I notice that the message doesn't show as having an "attachment", so I guess the image is being treated as an "embedded object"?? How do I get it out into some program that lets me zoom the view?? Copy and paste doesn't seem to do it (tried pasting into both FireWorks and Word... neither got anything but a blank box).

Suggestions?

Thanks.

andretan · Oct 9, 2003, 08:31 AM

If you double click it, it should open up in Preview...

kennedy · Oct 9, 2003, 08:47 AM

Originally posted by andretan:
If you double click it, it should open up in Preview...

No, double-clicking it selects it... like double-clicking a word of text. Triple-clicking selects the whole line. Right clicking brings up a menu with Cut, Copy, Paste, Spelling, and such. As an embedded object rather than an attachment, it seems to behave very differently.

How do I tell Mail to treate embedded objects as attachments? How does Mail decide what's an embedded object (Parts Folder) rather than an Attachment (Attachments Folder)???

WJMoore · Oct 9, 2003, 09:43 AM

Right/Ctrl-clicking on it (the attachment) should bring up a menu allowing you to view or save it to various locations.

Pheed · Oct 9, 2003, 01:27 PM

Actually, what you're describing is a bug that I've experienced myself on numerous occasions. I remember reading (maybe on thinksecret) that this bug has been fixed in the Panther version of Mail.

kennedy · Oct 9, 2003, 01:40 PM

Originally posted by WJMoore:
Right/Ctrl-clicking on it (the attachment) should bring up a menu allowing you to view or save it to various locations.

If it were an attachment, yes. But not in this case... my only option seems to be copy, and it doesn't seem to work (tried to copy and paste into Word and into FireWorks; neither worked).

Other ideas? (Besides waiting 2 weeks for Panther to come out.)

bseely · Oct 9, 2003, 01:54 PM

some attachments (for me, they're all from AOL are encoded into the email, not actually attachments.

view the source... is the imagine encoded there, and not actually marked as an attachment?

you should be able to copy that text out, save it as a base64 or whatever doc, and have stuffit decode it.

OwlBoy · Oct 9, 2003, 02:14 PM

Hmmm, if mail displays it, try dragging and dropping it to the desktop...

-Owl

Judge_Fire · Oct 10, 2003, 01:52 AM

If you can select it, can you copy it?

J

kennedy · Oct 10, 2003, 02:17 AM

Good suggestions... at least I thought so before I tried them.

I cannot drag it to the desktop. And although I seem to be able to copy it, I don't think its really working... because I don't get anything useful when I paste it into Word or FireWorks.

Judge_Fire · Oct 10, 2003, 04:18 PM

How about forwarding it to yourself, but converting the message to plain text before you hit send, from Format > Make plain text?

J

kennedy · Oct 11, 2003, 09:46 AM

Originally posted by Judge_Fire:
How about forwarding it to yourself, but converting the message to plain text before you hit send, from Format > Make plain text?

J

Oh, yeah, that's clever... it still didn't show up as an attachment in the header list, but I was able to save the attachment when right clicking on it. Redirect and Make Text also worked, and that preserved the sender info. Thanks.

Judge_Fire · Oct 12, 2003, 10:59 AM

Hacking Mac probs since 94. I'm happy it worked.

J