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How do you add a hyperlink to a jpeg?

I would like to email a photograph (jpeg) to friends and clients that allows them to click on the photo to be directed to my website. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to hyperlink a jpeg and if so, how to do it.

Thanks!

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Posted on Dec 26, 2006 2:12 PM

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Sandie Cohen Author

Level 1

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Dec 28, 2006 2:02 PM in response to rhwalker

Here's a couple of shareware client-side image map editors that I located on Version Tracker moments ago:

YokMap 1.0.1 (last updated August 2004):
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24199

MapSpinner (last updated November 2006):
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23911

See if that helps. I didn't want to give you a cookbook approch; I wanted you to have the excitement of learning something.

Russ...I do LOVE excitement, but a cookbook approach would have been my choice 🙂. A few lines of HTML, however elementary it may seem, is just out of reach for this newbie! If you've a cookbook method....or if perhaps this might be something you can do for me that I could compensate your for...let me know.

Also....it appears that you and Ewen are somewhat 'at battle'. Now, what's THAT all about?!?! Seriously, I appreciate both of your attempts (....though, quite candidly, you did know what I was looking for....sorry Ewen).

Thanks again.

Ewen

Level 6

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Dec 29, 2006 9:13 AM in response to Sandie Cohen

Also....it appears that you and Ewen are somewhat 'at battle'. Now, what's THAT all about?!?!
Don't blame me I didn't even reply to his posts:-), and was just offering an alternative, and hyperlinks in pdf documents to websites are used all the time, in my experience. I did also say Html, and client side mapping to be precise in this case, is another way to go, but it isn't simple which is perhaps why Rud hasn't given you a step by step protocol to solve your problem, but googled to a website for you which hasn't. Anyway, I'll bow out of this topic, since pdf isn't the way you want to go.

Sandie Cohen Author

Level 1

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Dec 30, 2006 8:33 AM in response to Ewen

PLEASE do not misunderstand, Ewen. I am very appreciative of your assistance and though it is not what I was looking for, I did learn something of value. So, thank you again.

Now, Russ...since I cannot for the life of me figure out this client side mapping HTML, can you perhaps help with this? Seriously, I've tried...but I just can't seem to do it.

Thanks again.

Sandie Cohen Author

Level 1

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Dec 30, 2006 9:49 AM in response to Sandie Cohen

Hi Russ,

Okay...I'm close (I think)!
1. Downloaded Map Spinner.
2. Opened the jpeg and got the HTML code.

Now, I followed your original instructions
1. In Mai, Preferences, Composing: Changed to Rich Text
2. Composed mail, inserted jpeg, saved as draft.
3. Went to Draft message, selected the email, viewed raw source (HTML).
4. Went to the folder via my Library, etc.

This is where I 'flunked'! I thought all I had to do here was change the HTML code of the draft mail to the HTML created by Map Spinner. BUT, I could not edit the code at all.

I know I'm doing something (everything?) wrong.

I did go to the other link again (HTML Goodies). Am I supposed to be using those instructions?

I AM SO UTTERLY CONFUSED...and gotta get this project done by tomorrow!

Please help....and thanks!

Ewen

Level 6

11,805 points

Dec 31, 2006 1:06 PM in response to Sandie Cohen

AM SO UTTERLY CONFUSED...and gotta get this project done by tomorrow!

html coding for emails is a tough task to crack for the beginner, and no cook to hand it seems;-) Have you considered using Dreamweaver (Adobe application) to help in making your html emails, it is a product that can do this. One problem will be html crosscompatibility with different email clients (e.g. outlook). Anyway, here's a link, see if its what you are looking for:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15200

Sandie Cohen Author

Level 1

20 points

Dec 31, 2006 3:00 PM in response to Ewen

Again....Thanks!

I do know about Dreamweaver and will take a more in depth look at that...one day when I've the time. In the meantime, I found a website that actually does the job. It is relatively inexpensive and at this point, after all the hours dabbling with HTML, 'I surrender' 🙂

In any event....I really appreciate all of your time and patience and wish you and yours a most wonderful New Year.

(a little bit of html!)
Sandie

rhwalker

Level 3

589 points

Jan 2, 2007 2:55 PM in response to Sandie Cohen

I AM SO UTTERLY CONFUSED...and gotta get this project
done by tomorrow!

Please help....and thanks!

Well, your deadline has obviously come and gone while I was out of the office (my dad had a stroke over the weekend, so I have been occupied at the hospital).

If you still have interest in knowing how to proceed, let me know.

Russ

Sandie Cohen Author

Level 1

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Jan 2, 2007 3:39 PM in response to rhwalker

Hi Russ,

I am so, so sorry to hear about your dad. I've 'been there, done that' and wish your dad a speedy recovery.

Yes, my 'deadline' passed. Then again, I'm the 'boss', so I simply just extended the deadline a week 🙂. That said, despite now having an option (albeit one that costs $$), I would LOVE to know how you'd proceed!

Thanks again for sticking with this and, again, all good wishes to you (and your dad).

Sandie

Dandover

Level 1

4 points

Mar 19, 2007 7:22 PM in response to Ewen

jpeg encodes images in a series of bytes, so as you now probably realize you can't put a link directly into this format.

I don't understand this. I've been adding a hyperlink to jpegs to do exactly what she wants for years using Outlook Express on a Windows 98 computer. One click, no HTML. This issue has been one of the most frustrating things for me as a recent Mac convert. I call tech support and they give me an answer that's similar to what is quoted above. But that doesn't answer the simple point that I was doing it for at least 6 years and now I'm a cool Mac user (according to the campaign) and I can't do something that was previously simple.

Is there something specific to Macs that won't allow me to put a link directly into this format?

Sandie Cohen Author

Level 1

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Dec 26, 2006 6:37 PM in response to Sandie Cohen

....or, is there a program that anyone knows that can accomplish this?

Sandie Cohen Author

Level 1

20 points

Dec 27, 2006 12:41 PM in response to Ewen

Thanks. I do have Acrobat Pro....but looked and don't see how to do it! Such a newbie 🙂
Might you be able to give me a quick 'how to'???

Thanks much.
Sandie

Ewen

Level 6

11,805 points

Dec 28, 2006 12:17 PM in response to rhwalker

For something as simple as this I would just hand code the HTML. It's really only a few lines.

That's not what I asked, you've linked several html editing clients, which of them works well?

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