So yet another problem with uploading the damn images. I figured out the dpi problem, thanks to a link in my thread about that. Now I have a problem with the format. My employer is specifying that it has to be a jpg. I figure, no problem. The camera automatically saves it as a jpg. Just to be sure, though, I “transformed” it to a jpg in my picture software (can’t remember which software it is at the moment). When I open it in photostudio and look at the image info, it says that it’s a jpg.
However, when I tried to actually do the upload, the upload program told me that it didn’t appear to be a jpg. I’ve double checked this, and can’t figure out what the problem is. Any ideas?
make sure you actually use the JPEG filetype suffix in the file name: call it “myphoto**.jpg**”
check the “Save” options – there can be strange encoding options, compression, etc. IIRC, Photoshop (what I’m most familiar with) has “optimized” and “more compatible” settings–and the “optimized” JPEG files don’t always open up in every program
Just another way that companies are taking perfectly good cross-platform industry standards and making them incompatible with each other for little reason.
<b>Padeye</b> it’s not case sentitivity, because I’ve tried uploading it as jpg, JPG, and JPEG. I’m not really sure what the upload program is…there’s a link on the page that says media upload and then it just asks me to find the file on my computer.
There’s also nothing that says “optimised” or the like. It just says “save” and then “jpg”
Servers should respect any file that has appropriate naming conventions, regardless of what’s actually in them. Unix servers don’t like spaces or certain illegal characters in the file names. Aside from name, though, you should be able to pick any file at random, rename it “image.jpg”, and upload it. Only your browser would care that it isn’t really a JPEG.
Your uploading software may be at fault. Check to make sure it isn’t appending extra extensions, knows whether to upload as “text” or as “binary”, and isn’t performing any verifications or checks that you don’t need or want for it to do. (As with servers, most ftp programs don’t give the proverbial rat’s ass what’s in the file itself, but some have too many bells and whistles, some of which may be tolling and wheeting at inappropriate times.).