Thread: Free Scroll Saw Patterns - early 1900's

wow.. fantastic.... what a great link..... wish he wouldn't have made them all into pdf.... hate that format... can't do anything with it.. can't see previews.
Good old Adobe photoshop will hopefully come to the rescue....

Thanks
Juvy

Juvy, Don't you have Acrobat Reader 7.0 on your system? You can download it from the net. You can't resize the patterns in it but can open the pdf files thru it to take a gander at them...all pages at once in a pattern. Easier for viewing then Adobe Photo Shop is for it.

BTW Brett, Thanks for the link....Trying to figure out which ones to download....Big files for my dial up....
Lin

of course I have Adobe Reader..... but when I'm in a folder with lots of files you can't see a thumbnail from the adobe files.... so unless they are named right you won't know what's in them unless you open them first.

Don't know which version windows you use, but since ME I've gotten used to the thumbnails views... I can see at a glance what's in my folders... well jpg, gif, bmp etc.. big help... quicker to scan pictures then read names, you can also see right away if there's anything double with different names.

Another thing I hate about pdf is that the Reader doesnt' get along with my comp...... never has with any of them ( maybe it's me? lol) likes to freeze up on me... so it's really a pain to use in my books.

Juvy

When you could download the patterns, you could also select the pictures on the website and save them to your computer as jpegs with the same name as the pdf file. This will mean both the image and the pattern are saved alongside each other. You'll be able to view the jpegs quickly in the previewer.

Gill

Yes Gill, that would work most of the time, but sometimes I'm just in too much of a hurry or I forget to rename the pics. Wish they'd come up with a way to display a pic from within a pdf.
Still think they are a pain because you have to open them, then if you want a different size still save them in a different format and use a different program.... would be much easier to just leave them as jpg to begin with, but.... must be just me... seems most other people like pdf files.
Juvy

Originally Posted by keju

of course I have Adobe Reader..... but when I'm in a folder with lots of files you can't see a thumbnail from the adobe files.... so unless they are named right you won't know what's in them unless you open them first.

Juvy

Win XP displays pdf files as thumbnails

Originally Posted by Sprog

Win XP displays pdf files as thumbnails

Not on my computer it doesn't ! How do you set that up? I've tried adjusting all the various "view files" settings.

Gill

thanks for the link Brett.........saved the files and am cutting out a pattern ..should finish it in the morning.
Dont see what all the fuss is about after all its a free d/l so I would think for that price the inconvenience of a pdf file is minimal.
Pete (who loves free patterns

Sprog's making fun of us Gill..... of course XP shows pdf as thumbnails.... thumbnails showing that it's a "pdf" file.. not showing what's inside.

Pete of course you're right... free is good... so we shouldn't gripe about pdf.... it's just that they've been a constant aggravation for me and I just had to make that remark that sparked the converstation about it.

Juvy

Originally Posted by keju

Sprog's making fun of us Gill..... of course XP shows pdf as thumbnails.... thumbnails showing that it's a "pdf" file.. not showing what's inside.

Pete of course you're right... free is good... so we shouldn't gripe about pdf.... it's just that they've been a constant aggravation for me and I just had to make that remark that sparked the converstation about it.

Juvy

Umm, sorry to disappoint you but Win XP does show the contents of a pdf file in the thumbnails.

Originally Posted by keju

Another thing I hate about pdf is that the Reader doesnt' get along with my comp...... never has with any of them ( maybe it's me? lol) likes to freeze up on me... so it's really a pain to use in my books.

I also have the freezing up problem, usually when I close the first file and try to open another. I've found that I don't have the problem if I close the whole reader and file (rather than just the file) and then wait a few seconds before opening again with the next file.

regards
Coldamus

ok Andrew, would you please tell the rest of us how to make XP show the content of pdf files in thumbnails? Sure would appreciate it, might start liking pdfs.
Coldamus, on my old computer the program froze just opening it, now on this one it freezes when Adobe wants to update... when the window pops up telling you that there is one waiting and asking you if you want to do it now or later... won't let me choose.. freezes every time and I have to reboot.

juvy

My computer shows the thumbs in their PDF folders.

I have the folder My Documents and in that I keep a folder called DESIGNS. I bring up the designs folder - right click - right click and select view - select thumbnails. Done.

Also, you may or may not know, - right click on the folder and make your choice of finding a file by what type it is ( a doc - pdf - jpg) or what date you collected it, or by name, which is the alphbetic order.

Buzza

sorry Buzza, not working for me. All I still get is the old grey/red pdf folder picture just a bit bigger in thumbnail view.
Didn't know about the right click on folder to search .... thanks for that hint

Juvy