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How to convert MHTML files to JPG files

by us2nomads Jul 12, 2007 5:42AM PDT

I work with files that contain photos & text. Many are listed as MHTML files. I need to convert them to JPG in order to be able to place them on certain sites. Can anyone out there help me. I have had no luck at finding a online converter for this type of file.

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Not quite convertible
by ChuckT Jul 12, 2007 9:18AM PDT

Any ...html file is a webpage (or page construct) and a JPG is an image. It is not quite as simple, as you might imagine, to convert a webpage into an image, unless you want to do it manually.

To do so manually, it is just a screen capture. But if any part of that webpage is not on the screen at the time of the capture, then it will not automatically be included into the JPG (or any image).

It is possible to "stitch" multiple images together to merge multiple images together to create one image, but that, in most cases, is not an automatic function.

Now, if you want to learn how to do a screen capture, we can tell you that.
But, unless I am wrong (not impossible), the actions you are hoping for can not be done with a simple program.

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Thank you Chuck
by us2nomads Jul 13, 2007 2:50AM PDT

Thank you for your help Chuck. Yes I would like to learn to do a screen capture. I haven't been computing but for a few years & would like to learn everything I can.

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There are softwares that really make screen captures easy
by ChuckT Jul 13, 2007 4:44AM PDT

There are softwares that really make screen captures easy, but you don't need any of them to do a screen capture with the plain Windows PC.
In a later response I, or others, will be glad to steer you in the direction of those 3rd party software tools, and many are free.

But for now, it would behoove you to understand and learn the few steps to use the tools built right into Windows.

Basically, you will use the <PrtScn> key on your keyboard (probably located somewhere up near the top right row of your keyboard).

BUT, the <PrtScn> key does NOT do as you might suspect. It does not print the screen. Instead it just copies the image of what is on your screen into a 'hidden' buffer, the clipboard, of Windows.

Once you have that image in the buffer, which happened when you pressed that <PrtScn> key, you just need to 'paste' it (copy from the clipboard and into some image tool.

To do that, in Windows, there is the Paint program. Just open Paint and select the command to 'paste' (you can also just press Ctrl+V).

Once you have the image in the Paint window, you can print it, or even save the image by giving it a name and save it somewhere you can later remember and use.

There are other 'tricks' about using the <PrtScn> key, but try the above steps, and later, once you are familiar with that, just say so and more info will be given to you.

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This is exciting!
by us2nomads Jul 14, 2007 12:22AM PDT

I can hardly wait to try this. It sounds easy. I never fail to be amazed at all the wonderful things you can do on the computer. Thanks again Chuck to you & CNET forums.

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change mht to jpg on pictures.
by evaparnell May 27, 2012 4:10PM PDT

boo hoo fraid so. just not what i wanted to hear. when i save pictures from email it changes them to a page with a frame on it and you cannot see the picture. after the email is gone so is the picture. so i need some way to save them. eva

i have a dell with windows xp

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