I am using Open Office, not IE Office. I have been doing dozens of screen prints

[BrklynLiberal]

to save some images I want. The problem is that I have to save them to Open Office Writer. They are saved as ODF Text Document
which is an .odt file.

In order upload them to any online site, they have to be .jpg

Does anyone know how I can convert them? Is there any really good free photo editor?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

EDIT; My hard drive crashed and when I brought the PC in to have a new hard drive they put in Open Office.

I still have the disk for Office. Should I install that? Would it be any better?

[LaurenG]

1. I use irfanview to convert and I have firefox too.

http://www.irfanview.com/ :hi:

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Thanks. I am going to try that right now.

[RoyGBiv]

2. I'm confused ...

You're taking screen captures and saving them in text documents?

If I'm correct in trying to envision this, what you're actually doing is pasting a picture into a document and then saving the document. You don't "convert" this to do what you want to do. The document is in essence a container for the picture. You need to take the picture out of the document and save it separately.

You would be much better served by taking the screen cap, which copies it to the clipboard, opening something simple like Paint, and "pasting" the contents of the clipboard into a new image, then saving that image as a JPG file.

As for what you already have saved as a document, you can open those up, right-click on the image stored there and Copy the image, then do the same thing with Paint or some such thing.

OnEdit: You don't *have* to save as ODT. OpenOffice allows you to save your documents in a number of different formats, including DOC or RTF. There is no JPG option though as Writer is not a graphics editor.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. I guess the problem is that I do not have a graphics editor like Paint..I

did not realize that I would have such a problem until. I tried to upload the images.

I am going to try the software that is suggested above.

Thanks.

[RoyGBiv]

5. You have Windows, right?

Paint comes with it, which is why I suggested it. In a standard installation it's listed right under Notepad under Accessories.

I guess you might have some sort of customized installation that doesn't have it.

But, Infraview will work too.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. i will check...You are right. It was exactly where you said it would be. Thanks.

[canetoad]

7. First of all

whatever Roy said was spot on!

I am a huge fan of IrfanView for quick cropping, converting and resizing of images and hope you try it and start to use it regularly. It couldn't be more simple to save jpegs from screen shots; cntrl/print screen. Open IrfanView, hit Cntrl. + V and you have your picture ready to save in one of several formats.

Cheers

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Thank you..