Solving Image Problems

What you see reading a web page stored locally
often differs from how it will look on our web!

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Instead of following these guidelines, many translators accept their browsers' suggestion about how to save a page. For example, Internet Explorer will suggest: "Web page complete (*.htm, *,html)".

If you accept your browser's suggestion, then the following will usually happen

• When viewing the saved page with your browser, all images will show fine
• Your browser will save all included images to your disk, and change the image addresses in the saved web page (so that you can see them in your browser)
• Sometimes, the browser will change the name of the image file (because there is another image with the same file in the local folder)
• If you translate the page you saved, and send it to us to be posted at www.kidlink.org, then viewers will see an x (as above, at right) instead of the images.

Quick check to see if images are saved correctly

Most browsers let you point at the image, and right-click to get a pull-down menu of options. Select "Properties", and inspect the image's address (URL).

The URL of image at the the x above: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/E64RQS/Escritorio/kidlink/77_fitxers/Odd3. It tell that it has been saved in the computer's "Documents and Settings" folder.

The URL of image of the skeleton above is http://www.kidlink.org/english/society/jobs/doctor_a.jpg. When saved correctly, the URL will change to become: file:///C:/english/society/jobs/doctor_a.jpg. "http://www.kidlink.org" was changed to become "file:///C:". Otherwise, the URLs are identical. You may try it out to see.

If one saved image URL is correct, then all the others are usually also correct.

The easy way of correcting images

Sorry. There is no easy way.

The safest method is to save another copy of the web page correctly on your disk. Check that images are saved correctly, and translate again by overwriting the English text by your translation.

Do not try to save time by copying and pasting from the page with image errors. It is dangerous, and often fails.