It is clear that the posters on BF have a wide diversity of computer skills so I hope the following will be useful for those who sometimes find computers a bit of a challenge but would like to have Gijs's transmission graphs saved on their own pc for easy access:
Go House of Outdoor website at http://www.houseofoutdoor.com/
Scroll down past the colour photos to the dark grey area at the bottom
Go to the left-hand column headed Verrekijkers which means binoculars
Go to the item 4th from the bottom = Verrekijkers testen en vergelijken (note the word ‘testen’ = tests) and click to open.
There is a list of tests and you only need to left click to open them. The titles are in Dutch but if you just look for the word ‘kijkers’ meaning bins and then the brands and models (which are the same as in English) you are interested in, it is not difficult to navigate your way.
Left click on, say, this one to open it: Test van nieuwe 8×42 kijkers van Leica Swarovski en Zeiss def MAART 2016. With only a little imagination you can see this means a test of new 8x42 bins from Leica, Swaro and Zeiss, in March 2016.
Now if you have the full all-singing, all-dancing Adobe Acrobat Reader you can select the transmission graphs and save them to a folder on your computer. Probably there is other software that can do this too but Acrobat Reader is the most well-known. But if you spend all your money on optics and holidays like me and only have the free version of Reader (which you can download from https://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/ ) then you will find that you can’t save the graphs, but I have found a way around this. My method assumes you have Microsoft Word on your pc, but this way might well work with other similar software.
Having opened the document from the website you now need to download it to your computer. If you have opened it using Firefox as your browser then you need to go to the icons in the right-hand side of the dark bar across the top of the document and click on the icon that is the second from the right. It looks like a page of paper with the top right-hand corner turned down and there is a downward pointing arrow in the middle. Click this and a window opens asking you what you want Firefox to do. By default it is already set up to download (‘save’) the file to your pc so just click OK. You will notice that the downward pointing arrow in the bar above (its to the left of the ‘house’ symbol) has turned blue. If you have a different browser just Google how to download from it and you will get advice on how to do it.
Before you do anything else, open a blank document in Microsoft Word as you will need to use this soon.
Left click on the downward pointing arrow and a window opens showing the title of Gijs’s document. Double left click and it opens the document. By the way, once you have done this the arrow turns back to black, but the document remains listed ‘under the arrow’ and you can return to it to open it again if you wish.
Scroll down to the graph you wish to have easy access to and place the cursor (which is like cross-hairs in a rifle scope) in the graph and left click. This selects the graph and it turns a blue colour. Right click on the blue area and a window opens allowing you to left click on the instruction to copy. Open your blank Word document and right click on it. A window opens and you should select the paste option that is like a clip-board with sheet of paper and hey presto, the graph is now sitting on the Word document.
Nearly at the end now .
Right click on the graph and a window opens giving you various options. Under the clipboard symbol is an option to edit the picture (ie your graph) and under this the option to ‘save as a picture’. Select this and save it to the folder of your choice, re-naming it so you know what it is.
Now you can go straight to Gijs’s transmission graphs without opening a website or wading through a document in Dutch, and if you save other graphs you can more quickly compare them.
When you click on the titles of the graphs in your folder, because it is regarded as a picture, it will be your picture viewer that opens it and these normally have an option to rotate the picture so that it is in ‘landscape’ view and you don’t have to tilt your head to one side to look at it.
I hope this proves useful to some of our community.
Best wishes to all
Lee
Go House of Outdoor website at http://www.houseofoutdoor.com/
Scroll down past the colour photos to the dark grey area at the bottom
Go to the left-hand column headed Verrekijkers which means binoculars
Go to the item 4th from the bottom = Verrekijkers testen en vergelijken (note the word ‘testen’ = tests) and click to open.
There is a list of tests and you only need to left click to open them. The titles are in Dutch but if you just look for the word ‘kijkers’ meaning bins and then the brands and models (which are the same as in English) you are interested in, it is not difficult to navigate your way.
Left click on, say, this one to open it: Test van nieuwe 8×42 kijkers van Leica Swarovski en Zeiss def MAART 2016. With only a little imagination you can see this means a test of new 8x42 bins from Leica, Swaro and Zeiss, in March 2016.
Now if you have the full all-singing, all-dancing Adobe Acrobat Reader you can select the transmission graphs and save them to a folder on your computer. Probably there is other software that can do this too but Acrobat Reader is the most well-known. But if you spend all your money on optics and holidays like me and only have the free version of Reader (which you can download from https://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/ ) then you will find that you can’t save the graphs, but I have found a way around this. My method assumes you have Microsoft Word on your pc, but this way might well work with other similar software.
Having opened the document from the website you now need to download it to your computer. If you have opened it using Firefox as your browser then you need to go to the icons in the right-hand side of the dark bar across the top of the document and click on the icon that is the second from the right. It looks like a page of paper with the top right-hand corner turned down and there is a downward pointing arrow in the middle. Click this and a window opens asking you what you want Firefox to do. By default it is already set up to download (‘save’) the file to your pc so just click OK. You will notice that the downward pointing arrow in the bar above (its to the left of the ‘house’ symbol) has turned blue. If you have a different browser just Google how to download from it and you will get advice on how to do it.
Before you do anything else, open a blank document in Microsoft Word as you will need to use this soon.
Left click on the downward pointing arrow and a window opens showing the title of Gijs’s document. Double left click and it opens the document. By the way, once you have done this the arrow turns back to black, but the document remains listed ‘under the arrow’ and you can return to it to open it again if you wish.
Scroll down to the graph you wish to have easy access to and place the cursor (which is like cross-hairs in a rifle scope) in the graph and left click. This selects the graph and it turns a blue colour. Right click on the blue area and a window opens allowing you to left click on the instruction to copy. Open your blank Word document and right click on it. A window opens and you should select the paste option that is like a clip-board with sheet of paper and hey presto, the graph is now sitting on the Word document.
Nearly at the end now .
Right click on the graph and a window opens giving you various options. Under the clipboard symbol is an option to edit the picture (ie your graph) and under this the option to ‘save as a picture’. Select this and save it to the folder of your choice, re-naming it so you know what it is.
Now you can go straight to Gijs’s transmission graphs without opening a website or wading through a document in Dutch, and if you save other graphs you can more quickly compare them.
When you click on the titles of the graphs in your folder, because it is regarded as a picture, it will be your picture viewer that opens it and these normally have an option to rotate the picture so that it is in ‘landscape’ view and you don’t have to tilt your head to one side to look at it.
I hope this proves useful to some of our community.
Best wishes to all
Lee
