Saving pictures off Publisher 2003 made website

[JP Magor]

Hi there,

I have created a web page in publisher 2003 with photos on it. the only
problem is friends of mine ,who have viewed it, want to save some of the
photos on it but no 'save picture as..' option comes up when they right click
on each photo, only 'save background as' comes up in the right click menu .
Its as if the photos have all been embedded into each html file of the web
site. Is there any way to disable this and allow a website to be published
which will allow you to right click and save images on it to your hard disk?
(i imagine this will increase the size of the web page dramatically) Any help
will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

 

[DavidF]

MS decided to disable the right click, save as a picture option in Pub 2003,
and unfortunately didn't make it optional. I am guessing the reason is that
people wanted to try to protect their images from being copied that way. A
workaround is to link your image to the original image, or a version of the
image that you want to make available to be copies. Reference this article:
How to Thumbnail in Publisher Web Publications:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/articles/80553.aspx

DavidF

 

[Mike Koewler]

David,

I'm curious - what does the browser display if not the image itself? I
would have thought that maybe it was sent to the background (sort of
like putting a transparent frame over the image) so that right clicking
brings up an empty frame? Doesn't the source code show something like
<img src="picture.jpg"> so a viewer could enter
www.mywebsite.com/picture.jpg into the browser and see the image?

Mike

 

[DavidF]

Mike,

You are absolutely correct. However, given the way that Publisher copies,
renames and uses different versions of the same image for different
browsers, it does make it kind of hard to find the image name in the source
code.

If you see it in your browser, then you can find several ways to copy it.
Its on your hard drive in a temp folder, for example. Disabling the right
click option only slows down the person wanting a copy of the image...it
doesn't stop the person that is determined to copy it. If you post it, it
can be copied.

Personally I would prefer that the default be to allow right click, and then
if you want to add a code snippet to stop right clicking, that is easy
enough to add.

DavidF

 

[John G]

If the pictures are files somewhere else, pointed to from the web page,
such as in an album created by one of the album programs, Porta for
instance, then IE will allow you to save the picture.

If you use Firefox instead of IE then even embbeded pictures in Pub Web
pages can be savesd from the right click menu.

Of course I understand IE is still the bowser of choice (or default) for
most people.

 

[DavidF]

Also true...if the images are imported, or you use FF you can right click
them. The fact that you can use FF is another example of how someone that
really wants copies of your pictures will also probably know a way of
getting them. That's part of the reason I disagree with the right click
being disabled by default.

Thanks John G.

DavidF

 

[Mike Koewler]

David,

When all else fails, PrintScreen!

A buddy always writes in NGs where people ask about protecting their
images - if you want to make sure no one can copy an image, don't place
it on the Net.

Mike