[Pro] Picture download

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Hi!

My idea is to use thumblie in FW7 for a responsive website. Is it somehow possible to offer a file download via the hyperlinkdialog (Add hyperlink option) of a highresolution picture (not the web picture in Exhibheo), which is stored at a server?

My client needs a responsive galerie, but also likes one in one to offer an easy download of printable fotos. Exhibeofotos itself would be to small of course.

IF YES, HOW?
IS THERE A CODE I CAN USE?
OR IS THIS A SILLY IDEA?
How would I let webusers know about the download option?

If someone has another idea how to reach this task in general or except Exhibeo, ideas are most welcome.

Personaly I would split both tasks, or link to a dropbox, but my client ask for it… :wink:

Thanks a lot!

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Simple. Upload your hi-res images to a separate location. In Exhibeo, open
your Thumbly gallery. Click the little grid of squares at the window bottom
to access the caption editing feature. Double click each image and manually
add a hyperlink to the hi-res version.

###Manually adding hyperlinks

If you’re not experienced at manually adding hyperlinks, DON’T PANIC… it’s
not rocket surgery.

There are basically 2 flavors of hyperlink - ABSOLUTE and RELATIVE.
Absolute links are those ones that start with the http:// bit like http://www.mysite.com/hires-images/image123.jpeg. Absolute links tell the
browser exactly where to look for the object of the link

Relative links on the other hand, tell the browser where to find the link
object in relation to the link itself. This makes it easy to test your web
document on your local machine or on your server, and is how Freeway
commonly structures it’s internal links – as in
hires-images/image123.jpeg or ../hires-images/image123.jpeg. However,
if you manually write a relative link but get the relative location wrong
(which is easy to do) then the browser sees it as broken or not found.

Now, there are plenty of different ways to do this, I think the simplest is
to create an empty subfolder in your Freeway file called hires-images.
After you publish and upload your website, use and FTP app to upload the
hi-res images into it.

But BEFORE doing that, make your Thumbly gallery and anticipate the links
and add those ahead of time.

If you don’t have some already complicated, nested folder structure for
your website, then the link formula will be straight-forward. For example:

  http://www.mysite.com/hires-images/image123.jpeg

would be the absolute way to say (1) the server location, (2) the
sub-folder location, (3) the filename. You would have to know each of the
hi-res image file names (those names should fit internet naming
conventions… alphanumeric, no spaces, etc.). The same holds true for
relative links:

  hires-images/image123.jpeg

which indicates the location (1) from the top web directory (2) sub-folder,
(3) filename. In either case, spelling must be exact - typos are not
tolerated. Which sounds all serious (it is) but it’s not impossible either
as long as you follow these rules. Do it a few times and you’ll see how
possible all the impossible stuff truly is.

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Wow, that was a quick and detailed answer. Thanks a lot. It is a very good explanation, after many years in this profession now I know finally ;).

Before I posted I had tried it already with an absolute link.
It works, but instead of a download-dialog (where to store it on my computer) the hires picture opens in the browser window itself. The user is stuck.

(And my client says that his users are a bit inexperienced with Internet)

So I need the download-dialog, but as well information perhaps as caption, that you can download it.

What do you mean?

If you or someone needs a link, please wait until tomorrow.

All the best!

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There is no download link necessary. Everyone but your grandparents knows
that when your browser opens an image that you can right-click, or
control-click, or menu save it to your drive. You can even drag it from the
browser window onto your drive. Control clicking or right clicking the link
to the image let’s you also save it to your drive. Point is, this is
all normal browser behavior and secret to no one (except your grans).

So if the users are ignorant, educate them (a little). Otherwise, you are
now asking for something simple to become far more complicated than
necessary.

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You are right ideed. My client is overcautious I am afraid. :wink: But as always there a many ways in webdesign. For instance one can offer a separate zip folder at the page including all files as download in addition. To make things simple.

Thanks again!!

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