jedgar
Junior Aurelian
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Post by jedgar on Oct 16, 2016 3:15:15 GMT
James "Jack" F.W. May (1883-1956), English born, raised in Brazil, was the son of Edward May, a well known naturalist in his day who collected for the British Museum. It was Jack May who amassed the 100,000 plus arthropod collection I've been working on this summer past. I have written an abbreviated version of his story, and the story of the May Natural History museum and offer them here as a bit of an experiment in that I am placing a link here to a PDF file of the story with photos embedded. I'm unsure if the link will work or if anyone reading this will be able to open a PDF file. www.grafixnpix.com/insects/maymuseumstory.pdfIf there are abundant problems with this approach I'll post it as a text file and insert photos at the end. Jim
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 16, 2016 7:02:14 GMT
The link works fine, fascinating read, tough times especially in Brazil and South Africa.
Rich
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Post by nomad on Oct 16, 2016 11:02:35 GMT
Very interesting. Thank you for adding it here. The pdf seems a good way to produce an article.
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Post by nomad on Oct 16, 2016 14:35:06 GMT
In spite of my difficulties recently with a image hosting image site which they managed thankfully to resolve. If you want to add many images to one post you can join one of those sites for free and then add as many images as you like by clicking the URL to your image and pasting it in your thread.
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 16, 2016 14:53:53 GMT
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Post by cabintom on Oct 16, 2016 15:38:35 GMT
After multiple unsuccessful efforts to put a post online with some photos I've uploaded to my server I'm stumped. If they're uploaded to your server, is there a way to navigate to them using a web browser? Are they publicly accessible? If so, I'd imagine you should be able to embed them here. If it's a private server, I don't believe you can embed them.
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jedgar
Junior Aurelian
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Country: U.S.A.
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Post by jedgar on Oct 17, 2016 0:24:20 GMT
After multiple unsuccessful efforts to put a post online with some photos I've uploaded to my server I'm stumped. If they're uploaded to your server, is there a way to navigate to them using a web browser? Are they publicly accessible? If so, I'd imagine you should be able to embed them here. If it's a private server, I don't believe you can embed them. Yes, they are publicly accessible, yes it is entirely possible to navigate to them using a web browser. Mine is not a private server but a hosting service. I have a lot of photos to post and need to resolve the issues (I'm very careful to follow the instructions given by the forum for attaching photos, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Go figure.) because I don't want the forum to be charged for my photos. Thanks for your help. Jim
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jedgar
Junior Aurelian
Posts: 73
Country: U.S.A.
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Post by jedgar on Oct 17, 2016 0:37:24 GMT
For whatever reason the "attach image" function will not work. My images do not appear in my post. I can copy paste the URL into my browser bar and they pop right up w/o a problem. Links to my photos work on eBay, facebook and anywhere else on the web I post them. www.grafixnpix.com/insects/16_9_14-1Above is a link to one of the images I've been trying to show along with text. I have a lot of photos and don't want to attach them one at a time because your hosting service would charge you. Thanks for listening and trying to help. Jim I'm thinking that some coding issue in the forum is chopping my URLs because when I click what looks like a hot link above I get a "404 URL not found" that photo will pop up in a heartbeat if copy-pasted in the URL bar with http:// in front of the www.
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Post by deliasfanatic on Oct 17, 2016 1:06:45 GMT
I clicked your link, Jim, and I also get the "404" error. I'm certainly no expert on web coding, but I wanted to confirm that I'm getting the same result as you. Perhaps someone else will know more.
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jedgar
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Post by jedgar on Oct 17, 2016 1:18:13 GMT
I clicked your link, Jim, and I also get the "404" error. I'm certainly no expert on web coding, but I wanted to confirm that I'm getting the same result as you. Perhaps someone else will know more. Try this - place an http:// in front of the www.grafixnpix.com/insects/16_9_14-1 then copy-paste the entire URL into the URL bar in your browser. This works perfectly in my browser. When you see what the photo is of I think you'll understand why I want to share it along with the story. Thanks, Jim I've got a pile of Delias photos to post also.
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Post by deliasfanatic on Oct 17, 2016 1:27:50 GMT
Hmm - it won't work for me. It deletes the http:// prefix every time, then gives an error. I've tried in both Firefox and Chrome. What browser are you using?
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jedgar
Junior Aurelian
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Post by jedgar on Oct 17, 2016 1:45:19 GMT
Hmm - it won't work for me. It deletes the http:// prefix every time, then gives an error. I've tried in both Firefox and Chrome. What browser are you using? Firefox. The http:// prefix isn't deleted in my browser's URL bar and the pic pops right up. Go figure. When I copy-paste the URL into postings on the forum it deletes the http:// every time though like this www.grafixnpix.com/insects/16_9_14-1It shows in the "Create Post" window, but it'll be missing as soon as I click "create post." I'd do the posts as PDF files (why did that link work fine but not my photo links?) but to create PDF files I have to move my files into another computer a bit of extra hassle.
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Post by deliasfanatic on Oct 17, 2016 2:41:21 GMT
Is anyone else able to view Jim's attachment?
I'd suggest that you could use Photobucket for attachments, but they seem to be having problems since Nomad's photos disappeared for awhile several days ago. Mine did briefly, but came back within an hour or two. I've used another service before, Imageshack, but they don't allow much space in their free service.
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Post by cabintom on Oct 17, 2016 3:54:15 GMT
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Post by deliasfanatic on Oct 17, 2016 4:45:27 GMT
Voila!
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