trying to figure out how to post files to be downloadable by my readers. This should be simple. I hope. If you click the link below it should let you download a file called “reader.zip” which is a .SVG file of the image over there on the left. I have to compress it into a zip file because for some bizarre reason WP will not let me upload a .SVG file to my media library.
Anyway you should be able to download a file called “reader.zip” by clicking on the “DOWNLOAD” link below.
.SVG is a vector graphics format that is commonly used with laser engravers and you should be able to directly import it into the design software used by most brands of engraver. So try downloading it, unzipping it, and checking that you get a usable image. If you have problems please let me know.
This image is public domain, a scan taken from an image published well over 100 years ago and is available free from several other sites on the internet. Feel free to use it for whatever you wish.
If this works I hope to be able to share some of the designs I make myself for the laser in the future.
grouchyfarmer 
Have the reader who wants to copy the picture right click on it and find the words, “Save As.”
This will lead the reader to their choice and will give them an opportunity to title the picture before saving it.
The end result will be that a perfect picture of the picture will appear in their computer picture file.
The way it looks when downloaded from the link you provided is that the lady appears to be behind a heavy fence of some kind…made up of random dark dots.
Steps In The Process:
Sure! Here’s a clear, step-by-step guide for grabbing an image from a blog and saving it to your computer’s photo files. I’ll cover the process for both Windows and Mac.1. Open the Blog
2. Right-Click the Picture
3. Select “Save Image As…”
4. Choose a Location on Your Computer
5. Save the Image
Optional Tips
Win + Shift + S→ select area → save in Photos.Command + Shift + 4→ select area → saved on Desktop.LikeLike
An .svg file isn’t technically really an image at all, in one sense. It’s a vector file. It is a set of instructions or mathematical paths that defines a shape. Think of it more as, oh, plotting a graph rather than drawing an actual image. When you look at a JPG file that shows a black and white image, you aren’t seeing just the black of the drawing, you are seeing a flat plane made up of colored dots. The white background you see isn’t blank, it is the actual real image where the pixels are being set to the specific color white, while the dots representing the drawing are set to back.
With a .SVG file there is no background at all. There there is literally nothing there. Your viewer doesn’t know how to interpret that so it displays “nothing” as those dots you see. When working with equipment like laser engravers we do not want any kind of background like you’d normally get with a .JPG. We want the background to be, well, nothing, otherwise the laser’s driver software might interpret that background color information as something it should engrave instead of leaving blank. Most of the software these days compensates for that and interprets a white background as being “nothing” but I started doing this a couple of generations ago and back then a white background could very easily end up being actually engraved as if it were a gray colored background. So I routinely remove the background information entirely with Illustrator or I save the file out as a .PNG with a “transparent” background.
Some viewers like Google Chrome will show an SVG with a white background because otherwise people might think there’s something wrong. But other viewers will show the blank areas with ghost like dots to indicate that there is nothing at all there in the background.
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I always say, “Whatever works.” — and, oh by the way, I never fail to be deeply impressed by your insights, your intuitive creativity —you have a special gift….
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