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| From | "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.software.thunderbird, alt.comp.software.firefox |
| Subject | Re: Pasting photos in html emails |
| Date | 2025-03-20 17:51 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vri2le$181m$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <09cualxkvk.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 3/20/25 05:00 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sometimes I send html emails to friends with summaries of some news for chatting on them,
> and I add photos. Normally, the photos are links, so the email weight is small.
>
> Take this article, for instance (using firefox): <https://ubuntuhandbook.org/
> index.php/2025/03/photogimp-updated-to-help-switching-from-photoshtop-to-gimp-3-0/>
>
> I click on the first photo, then right click on the menu, and select "Copy Image". Then on
> the email, I simply do ctrl-v and paste the photo.
>
> But since recently, this has a twist. The email weights one megabyte. On TB, I double
> click on the image, and Image location contains "data:image/png;base64,iVBOR…
> 8EtAFbFgqOrgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==". If I save the email, it has 1 megabyte.
>
> The remedy is to delete this line, go to firefox, right click on the image, select "copy
> image link", and on TB paste that link in the "Image Location" field of the photo
> (<https://ubuntuhandbook.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/gimp3-patched.webp>). Now when
> saving the email it weights just 3.5 KB.
>
> This was not happening some time ago, I always got the photo links. Now I have to be
> careful when sending photos that I don't get the heavy version.
>
> Why, what is going on?
>
Seems firefox assumes when you say copy image, it means just that. The image is copied to
the clipboard. If you went to Word or Libreoffice writer or Gimp or Photoshop (etc) and
pasted, you'd get your image from the clipboard.
When you paste into email, email programs do not handle photos literally. They translate
them into base64 code. Base64 has the each 8bit byte of the image translated to ascii
characters that can be easily sent via email programs. The problem as you have noticed is
the overhead is huge.
One workaround, other than your first find, would be to 'save image as', then attach it to
your email. This would work if you were writing to say: "See my new car" and you attached
the image. Not so well though if you wanted to disperse images all though the email. I
think your plan is the better, as long as the links don't rot.
--
Linux Mint 22.1, Cinnamon 6.4.8, Kernel 6.8.0-55-generic
Thunderbird 128.8.0esr, Mozilla Firefox 136.0.1
Alan K.
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Re: Pasting photos in html emails Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-21 17:08 +0000
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Re: Pasting photos in html emails Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-21 11:31 -0500
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-21 17:17 +0000
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-21 15:59 -0500
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-22 16:43 +0000
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-22 16:26 -0500
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Re: Pasting photos in html emails Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-22 16:40 -0500
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Re: Pasting photos in html emails Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-24 18:32 +0000
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-21 11:33 -0400
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-21 17:24 +0000
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-22 16:47 +0000
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-22 13:31 -0400
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-22 16:10 -0500
Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-22 23:50 +0100
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-21 08:17 -0400
Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-21 15:12 +0100
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-21 11:30 -0400
Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-22 15:40 +0100
Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-27 14:32 +0200
Re: Pasting photos in html emails knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-27 09:34 -0400
Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-27 16:07 +0200
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